These are the vocabulary words for December.

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Common Words

Week 1

permeate shoddy diminutive etymology shrew 

Week 2

discordant gyration discursive anathema nefarious

Week 3

sidle revered gregarious disheveled anomaly

Grade Seven Words

Week 1

ostracize    
disparage chronic officious disparity

Week 2

reverie stereotype sinister lucid stilted

Week 3

dissemble   ludicrous askance sobriety malign

Grade Eight Words

Week 1

Implement (v) (IM-pluh-munt)

Prudent (adj.) (PROO-dunt)

Depravity (n) di-PRAV-uh-tee)

Visionary (n) (VIZH-uh-ner-ee)

Innate (adj.) (i-NAYT)

Judicious (adj.) (joo-DISH-us)
Unconscionable (adj.) (un-KAHN-shuh-nuh-bul)

Week 2

Corollary (n) (KOR-uh-ler-ee) Maudlin (adj.) (MAWD-lin) Laconic (adj.) (luh-KAHN-ik) Mentor (n) (MEN-tur) Ambiguous (adj.) (am-BIG-yoo-us) Exalt (v) (ig-ZAWLT) Figurative (adj.) (FIG-yur-uh-tiv)

Week 3

Husbandry (n) (HUZ-bun-dree) Exacting (adj.) (ig-ZAK-ting) Philanthropy (n) (fi-LAN-thruh-pee) Tentative (adj.) (TEN-tuh-tiv) Peripatetic (adj.) (per-uh-peh-TET-ik) Lugubrious (adj.) loo-GOO-bree-us)

graffiti (n) (graff-EE-tee)

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