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"BIGWORDS"

Vocabulary "study starters"
Some of these words may be familiar, some have different meanings other than the more popular one (medium, employed), some may be totally unrecognizable.  Your mission is to find your own best way to to learn and remember them.  Try making sentences with the words, using the dictionary or consulting the many books in the lab center or websites geared towards vocabulary for study ideas.  I've provided a few sources to get you started on the main vocabulary page.
 

 BIGWORDS from the text...click here for definitions...
eavesdropping employed phonetically
jargon archaic astutely
eloquent coined authoritative
bourgeois illustrious former
medium inherent merits

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