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Brazen
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English
9th Grade
10/16/2016

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Term
brazen
Definition

(Exaggerated fearlessness or boldness)

 

Ex: Michael made several Brazen attempts to asklila out, but he chickened out everytime.

Term
defy
Definition

(defy) in a quick and skillful manner.

 

Ex: The crowd roared with appluase when Alisha made her defy.

Term
impulse          intuition
Definition

(impulse) a sudden wish or urge

(Intuition) a sense of knowing; an insight

 

Ex:  Megan trusted her intuition about her date and left the restaurant without saying goodbye because she had a feeling something was odd. Even though he had the impulse to runand hide,Laron courageously stod strong and faced the bully.

Term
laspe
Definition

(lasped, lasping) to sink or slip gradually.

 

Ex: while waiting to go on stage, Alvin experienceda momentary laspe into stage fright, but pulled himself out of it and went on withthe show.

Term
reverie
Definition

(reveries) a dream.

 

Ex: like most of her daydreams about carl, in this reverie,   she found herself at the carnival taking selfies and holding hands

Term
meditation
Definition

(meditate, meditating , meditates, meditataed) an act of deepthinking or reflection.

 

Ex: before kalvin made the decision to break up with sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several days

Term
tedious
Definition

(tediuosly) boring, tiresome because of length, slowness or dullness.

 

Ex: every minute she waited for her mother to pick her up after school became more tedious because shae had nothing to do.

Term
perverse
Definition

(perverted, pervert) turned away from what is right or good.

 

Ex: gizelle thought it was perverted twist of fate that she wound up in an interview with cara smithers, the woman she bullied relentlessly in eighth grade.

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