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THIRD TRIMESTER WORDS:

mercurial, fatalist, insufferable, crypt, deliniate, yonder, aquaintance, onomatopoeia, prose, stereotype.

5 May 2008 Words:
anachronism, deference, miscreants, clairvoyant, morale, narration, thesis, meticulously, proffered, and incarcerated

April 7 th  words   -  Limbo (not the dance), conciliate, epiphany, verbose, revelation, epoch, diminutive, venial, dirk, vermilion

31 mar 2008 words -  impartial, interlaced, trice, resolved, veranda, obscure, reside, revolt, perfect, interface

antagonist, arduous, surge, scarlet, dignity, draught, blunder, cadence, indispensable, instinct.

SECOND TRIMESTER WORDS

Week One - gully, guerrila, guffaw, Guinea (money), grotto, grisly, gruff, guzzle, gubernatorial, guise. Extra Credit word - glacis

Week Two - Dapper, Daunt, Deadweight, Deathrattle, Depot, Despoil, Despot, Ditto, Ditty, Diva. Extra Credit Word - Dominion

Week Three - Odessey, omission, ogle, octan, oration, ordain, ohm, ocular, obtuse, oblique. Bonus: Onyx

Week Four - (14 Dec 07) Infidel, insatiable, inscribe, infringe, influx, inquest, innovate, insatiable, inflate, infinite.

Week Five (Jan 08) - venom, venerable, veer, velocity, vesper, vertex, vestige, vicious, vindictive, vintage, bonus - virtigo

Week six (14 Jan 08) - stupor, strategic, stroll, singular, sorted, stealth, significant, stigma, stigmata, stipulate, stringent

Week seven: (22 Jan 08) zloty, zealot, zephyr, zero, zest, zygote, zebu, zenith, zodiac, zany, and zombie.

Week eight: (28 Jan 08) Fritter, fulcrum, furl, futile, fortitude, foremost, format, foretell, frumpy, forestall, frivolous

Week nine (4 Jan 08) palmate, paratroop, panicle, parch, paranoid, plebeian, petrous, pledge, polarity, passive, plama (Physics definition).

Week 10 - Ergo, aforementioned, indeed, thusly, heretofore, aforesaid, hence

MEA prep

Week 11 (4 Mar 2008) Prosthesis, prosper, tyranny, effigy, proselytize, pachyderm, hasten, mercantile, mesmerize, secede

Week 12 (17 Mar 2008) aristocrat, fawn (not the animal), perch (not a fish), despatch, progeny, genial, unkempt, morose, uncouth, wan

FIRST TRIMESTER WORDS

A- acute, aerie, alibi, antebellum, antidote, ardor, argent, array, astir, aura, austere, autobiography

B - baby (verb), banish, behoove, benevolence, blockade, bloviate, blunt

C - caldron, carcass, catastrophe, caustic, cherub, coddle, coerce, compassion, constrict, court, cudgel

D - dedicate, delete, diligent

E - ebb, elude, emit, empathy, epitaph, eternity, euphemism, evidence, expound, extol

G - glint, goad

H - honor

L - lexicon

M - magistrate, mahout, maneuver, miscreant

N - nefarious, nosegay, nursemaid (verb)

O - octave, outskirts

P - parapet, patriotism, pensive, pertinent, persuade, piety, plead, predestination

Q - quirky

R - ragamuffin, reject

S - specter, snafu

T - tangible, testimony, tolerate, transcript, tremor, trinket

V - veteran, vie

W - wailing, whim, wield, witness, writhing

Z - zeal