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vocabulary 7
cameron emmons
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English
11th Grade
01/19/2016

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Term

archipelago

(noun)

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Definition

a large group of islands

 

The Glapigosa Islands are an archipelago off the east coust of Mexico

Term

careen

(verb)

 

When I first learned how to drive a standard truck it often started out moving in a careen motion

 

Definition

to rush headlong often with a swerving or lurching motion

 

When I first learned how to drive a standard truck it often started out moving in a careen motion

Term

cavalier

(adj)

Definition

showing and offhand of carefree disregard arrogant

 

I have a petpeeve of people who have cavalier attitudes

Term

contiguous

(adj)

Definition

sharing a boundary being very close or in contact adjacent.

 

Labor unions contiguous with multi-million dollor industrys often have rules and regulations to follow by.

Term

correlate

(verb)

Definition

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

 

The correlation of stem cells and regineration is a very intreging study in todays medical labs.

Term

etymology

(noun)

Definition

the history of words.

 

the etymology of the bible can be traced back to its hebrew origins from over 2000 years ago.

Term

frenetic

(adj)

 

I was frantic to learn about our vo-tech trip to High Heaven trampoline park on Febuary 7th.

Definition

wildly excited; frantic

 

 

Term

kinetic

(adj)

A rubber band, when streched has alot of kinetic enery stored.

 

 

Definition

relating to motion.

 

Term

presage

(verb)

 

The tornado sirens presage to threat of a tornado during these bad storms.

Definition

to foretell to warn or indicate in advance

Term

pulverize

(adj)

 

Native Americans use rocks to pulverize corn into meal to make bread.

Definition

to crush or grind into dust or powder.

Term

recondite

(adj)

 

Some of our Wordly Wise words are recondite to me.

Definition

difficult to understand abstruse

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repulse

(verb)

 

the uncannie smell around the building repulsed any tourist.

Definition

to repel to drive back.

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