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Grade 10 Defining Words
The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.
  1. incongruity
  2. diffidence
  3. expunge
  4. placate
Grade 10 Defining Words
Taking up a cause, ideology, practice, or method and using it as one's own.
  1. espousing
  2. deploring
  3. collaborating
  4. profaning
Grade 10 Defining Words
A destructive fire, usually an extensive one.
  1. effervescent
  2. spontaneous
  3. conflagration
  4. toxic
Grade 10 Defining Words
Homage
  1. A special honor to respect shown or expressed publicly
  2. To be present throughout; to permeate
  3. A branching into two parts
  4. To give in; to yield; to collapse
Grade 10 Defining Words
Pervade
  1. A force; a constraint; forcible confinement
  2. To annoy; to irritate; to vex
  3. Related to the matter at hand
  4. To be present throughout; to permeate
Grade 10 Defining Words
merciful; lenient; mild; not harsh
  1. admant
  2. rancor
  3. clement
  4. ostensible
Grade 10 Defining Words
Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated.
  1. effervescent
  2. provincial
  3. morose
  4. spontaneous
Grade 10 Defining Words
A short break from punishment; temporary relief.
  1. beset
  2. incipient
  3. interlude
  4. reprieve
  5. comprise
Grade 10 Defining Words
Duress
  1. Related to the matter at hand
  2. A force; a constraint; forcible confinement
  3. To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
  4. Tired looking; fatigued; gaunt
Grade 10 Defining Words
The word THRALL is a:
  1. verb
  2. noun
  3. adjective
  4. simile
Grade 10 Defining Words
The act of burning
  1. hypothesis
  2. synthesize
  3. pyhsicist
  4. combustion
Grade 10 Defining Words
Intense
  1. Someone or something that is very loud
  2. Someone that is very stressed out
  3. Someone or something that is very serious
  4. Something that is scary
Grade 10 Defining Words
Lack of interest; absence of passion or emotion
  1. asperity
  2. rectify
  3. mollify
  4. apathy
  5. felicity
Grade 10 Defining Words
A facial expression, often ugly or contorted that shows pain or disapproval
  1. prostrate
  2. grimace
  3. humane
  4. reprieve
  5. interlude
Grade 10 Defining Words
To settle or find a solution to a problem or dispute.
  1. complete
  2. hypothesis
  3. resolve
  4. solve
Grade 10 Defining Words
The state of being isolated or detached.
  1. synthesis
  2. dearth
  3. bequeath
  4. insularity
Grade 10 Defining Words
Peers and friends are the exact same thing.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 10 Defining Words
unrelenting; unavoidable; relentless
  1. inexorable
  2. opus
  3. diffident
  4. cliche
Grade 10 Defining Words
stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action
  1. pompous
  2. parasitic
  3. obdurate
  4. ethereal
Grade 10 Defining Words
A projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall.
  1. corroboration
  2. extraneous
  3. sublime
  4. buttress
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