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DEFINITION: To bring a feeling into existence.
SAMPLE SENTENCE: When the principal announced that students could no longer wear sneakers to school, it engendered anger in the student body
WORD FAMILY MEMBERS:( engenders, engedered, egendering) |
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DEFINITION:to ease someone's anger: calm someone down.
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After dropping her cell phone in the muddy puddle, I tried to pacify my friend by offering her a big, warm hug.
FAMILY MEMBERS:(pacified, pacifying, pacifies, pacifist, pacifier) |
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DEFINITION:enthusiastic support
SAMPLE SENTENCE:
Being an ardent Bills fan, Mark painted his face half red and half blue to show his love for the team.
FAMILY MEMBERS:ardently
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DEFINITION:
to make something bad even worse
SAMPLE SENTENCE:
The singer's terrible voice was exacerbated by the awful pianist who didn't know how to accompany her.
FAMILY MEMBERS:(exacerbates, exacerbating, exacerbated, exacerbating)
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DEFINITION:good judgement; shrewd
SAMPLE SENTENCE: Samuel Westing Jr. III had always been a sagacious business man known for his shrewd negotiating style.
FAMILY MEMBERS:(sagaciously) |
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DEFINITION: the disintegration or decomposition of something
SAMPLE SENTENCE: The Alka-seltzer tablet's dissolution was instant once it fell into the glass of water and virtually disappeared
FAMILY MEMBERS:(dissolutions) |
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DEFINITION:
the spreading of a disease or idea from one person to another through close contact
SAMPLE SENTENCE:
Once the idea of storming the Bastille took hold, it spread like a contagion among the people.
FAMILY MEMBERS:(contagions)
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DEFINITION:
a fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague
SAMPLE SENTENCE:
The Ebola virus is a horrific pestilence that was just as easily spread as the bubonic plague.
FAMILY MEMBERS:(pestilences)
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DEFINITION:
to make continual twisting movements of the body.
SAMPLE SENTENCE:The majestic lion writhed in pain, its body twisting in strange patterns, after being shot with a tranquilizer gun at close range.
FAMILY MEMBERS:(writhes, writhing, writhed)
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DEFINITION:
of crucial importance in relation to the success of something else.
SAMPLE SENTENCE:
Graduating from high school was a huge achievement in Hank's life and a pivotal moment in the life of his mother as well.
FAMILY MEMBERS:(pivot, pivoting, pivots, pivoted)
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