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10th Grade
09/29/2022

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Term
initiation 
Definition

 

Definition: 
the action of admitting someone into a secret or obscure society or group, typically with a ritual.
 

Sentence: the initiation into the group was weird.

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Divinity
Definition

Definition: the state or quality of being divine.

Sentence: the divinity of this food is amazing.

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Term
insinuate
Definition

Definition: suggest or hint in an indirect and unpleasant way.

 

Sentence: I insinuated that he was failing but he didn't get the hint.

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Term
Annihilate
Definition

Definition: destroy utterly

 

Sentence: we annihilated the other team.

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Dispersed
Definition

Definition: distribute or spread over a wide area.

 

Sentence: i dispersed the ashes over the ocean.

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Term
surname
Definition

 

Definition: a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a given name.
 
 
 
Sentence: The surname of my family is Johnson.
 
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Encumbered
Definition

Definition:restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.

 

Sentence: the man is encumbered because of the quick sand.

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Term

insignificant

 

Definition

Definition: too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.

 

Sentence: the difference we made was insignificant.

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Term
profoundly
Definition

Definition: (of a state, quality, or emotion) very great or intense.

 

Sentence: the quality of this steel is profound.

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Term
Deportee
Definition

Definition: a person who has been or is being expelled from a country.

 

Sentence: my grandfather was a deportee.

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Term
Emigration
Definition

Definition: the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

 

Sentence: my dad emigrated to China.

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Term
treatise
Definition

Definition: a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

 

Sentence: we treatise over the candy.

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Term
anecdote
Definition

Definition: a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

 

Sentence: my father used to tell me this anecdote as a child.

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Term
melancholy
Definition

Definition: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

 

Sentence: my friend's melancholy for no reason.

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Term
Surreptitious
Definition

Definition:kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.

 

Sentence: my sexuality is surreptitious.

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