Tuesday, October 21, 2014

English-Vocabulary

Here is a list of vocabulary terms that students are responsible to know. Each word must be added to their current list and written in a sentence:

1.                  obsequious: obedient to an excessive degree…like a teacher’s pet, a suck
2.                  pernicious: having a harmful effect
3.                  austerity: strictness or severity
4.                  audacious: willing to take bold risks
5.                  duopoly: a situation in which two suppliers dominate a market
6.                  furore: an outbreak of public anger or excitement
7.                  hydrophobia: extreme fear of water; also rabies
8.                  kinetic: relating to or resulting from motion
9.                  litigious: having a tendency to go to law to settle disputes
10.              polysyllabic: having more than one syllable
11.              raconteur: a person who tells stories in an interesting way
12.              scimitar: a short sword with a curved blade
13.              synergy: a cooperation of two or more things to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate parts
14.              unkempt: having an untidy appearance
15.              verbose: using more words than are needed
16.              woebegone: sad or miserable in appearance
17.              zephyr: a soft gentle breeze
18.              cataclysm: a violent upheaval or disaster
19.              cumulus: a cloud forming rounded masses heaped on a flat base
20.              exceedingly: extremely
21.              fissure: a long narrow crack
22.              grotesque: comically or disgustingly repulsive
23.              ichthyology: the branch of zoology concerned with fishes

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