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vocab 7
Jace Dennis
15
English
11th Grade
01/19/2016

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Term

 archipelago

(noun)

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Definition

1. A large group of islands.

2. A body of water containing a large number of islands.

 

I would like to go to archipelago and visit.

Term

careen

(verb)

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Definition

 1. To rush headlong, often with a swerving or lurching motion.

2. To cause to lean or tip to one side (as a ship)

 

If the waves get to bad out there in the ocean the ships will careen

Term

cavalier

(adjective)

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Definition

Showing an offhand or carefree disregret; arrogant.

 

I was cavalier  to everyone that came by.

Term

contiguous

(adjective)

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Definition

Sharing a boundary; being very close or in contact; adjacent.

 

Lake is contiguous to Forrest. 

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correlate

(noun)

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Definition

To connect related things; to bring things into proper relation with one another. 

 

I correlate with alot of people.

Term

etymology

(noun)

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Definition

1. The history of a word.

2. The science that studies such histories.

 

I know alot of etymology.

Term

frenetic

(adjective)

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Definition

Wildly excited;frantic.

 

The football games are usually frenetic.

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kinetic

(adjective)

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Definition

Relating to motion.

 

A roller coaster produces kinetic enery.

Term

presage

(verb)

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Definition

To foretell; to warn or indicate in advance.

 

The dark clouds presage for a storm to come in.

 

Term

pulverize

(verb)

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Definition

1. To crush or grind into dust or powder.

2. To demolish.

 

I pulverize all of the ants.

Term

recondite

(adjective)


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Definition

Difficult to understand;abstruse.

 

School is recondite to me.

Term

repulse

(verb)

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Definition

1. To repel; to drive back.

2. To reject in a cool or distant manner.

 

The north and south repulse each other.

 

Term

seismic

(aadjective)

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Definition

1. Causssed by or having to do with earthquakes.

2. Having powerful and widespread effects.

 

Scienceist have figured out why seismeic happens.

 

Term

undulate

(verb)

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Definition

1. To form or move in waves.

2. To have a wavelike appearance or motion.

 

Sound undulate everytime noise is made.

Term

upheaval

(noun)

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Definition

1. A radical or violent change.

2. A forceful lifting or warping from beneath.

 

There was an upheaval in Utah.

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