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For reasons I cannot quite explain, I’ve always found its use pretentious, but here, nonetheless, because it occasionally turns up in English, particularly in academic prose, is a context clues worksheet on the verb aver. It means “to verify or prove to be true in pleading a cause”; “to allege or assert in pleading” and “to declare positively.” It is only used transitively.

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Here are two context clues context clues worksheets on auxiliary as both a noun and an adjective. I’ll assume I don’t need to defend the teaching of this word in whatever part of speech it is used.

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OK, here are two context clues worksheets on the noun avarice and the adjective avaricious. These are words high school student probably ought to know, because the concepts they represent are, well, let me be as charitable as possible about this, rife in these here United States.

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