Meet My New Vocabulary

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There are some strange words that have come up in my English class, ones that I've never even heard of. So, I decided, when my teacher assigned us to pick ten words from our vocab list and define them, that I would pick the hardest ones.

Abjure: to solemnly renounce

Ambiguity: the quality of being more open to more than one interpretation

Epistemic: relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validation

Hullabaloo: a commotion or a fuss

Indubitably: impossible to doubt

Insubordinate: defiant of authority or disobedient to orders

Introspect: to examine one's own thoughts or feelings

Mnemonics: the study and development of systems for improving and assisting the memory

Schema: a representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: extraordinarily good or wonderful

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