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Jessie Bulley - Week 10
Jessie Bulley - Week 10
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English
11th Grade
11/15/2011

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Term
Ignominious
Definition

[ig-nuh-min-ee-uh[image]s]

Discreditable; humiliating.

Adjective

The retreat was ignonimious.

Term
Effusive
Definition

[ih-fyoo-siv]

Adjective

Pouring out; overflowing.

The never-ceasing fountain was effusive.

Term
lurid
Definition

[loo[image]r-id]

Adjective

Gruesome; horrible; disturbing

I had to give account of the lurid details of the accident.

Term
Penitent
Definition

[pen-i-tuh[image]nt]

Adjective

Feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement.

After hitting the girl with her car, the old lady was very repenitent.

Term
Incisive
Definition

[in-sahy-siv]

Adjective

Adapted for cutting or piercing.

He constructed a very incisive spear to hunt with.

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