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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