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English III -Vocabulary 7
Ashley O'bryant
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English
11th Grade
01/19/2016

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Archipelago

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Definition

A large group of islands.

 

There was a lot of Archipelagos where my aunt went for her vacation.

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Careen

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Definition

To cause to lean or tip to one side.

 

The strong winds made the ship careen when it was sailing on the ocean

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cavalier

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Definition

showing an offhand or carefree disregard; arrogant

 

Destiny's cavalier attitude toward her teacher may get her in trouble one day.

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Contiguous

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Definition

sharing a boundary; being very close or in contact; adjacent

 

The countries stayed contiguous together.

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Correlate

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Definition

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

 

My cousin looked at the grids he was correlating.

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etymology

 

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Definition

the history of a word.

 

The teacher told the students about the word etymology.

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Frenetic

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Definition

Widely excited; frantic

 

The dog was really frenetic when its owner called it.

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Kinetic

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Definition

Relating to motion.

 

There was a lot of kinetic energy going on in the classroom.

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Presage

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Definition

To foretell; to warn or indicate in advance.

 

The women was trying to presage the people in the park.

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Pulverize

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Definition

To crush or grind into dust or powder.

 

The people that work in different factories can pulverizethings.

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Recondite

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Definition

Difficult to understand; abstruse.

 

The signs was very recondite for the man that was walking up the road.

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Repulse

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Definition

To repel; to drive back.

 

My sister made my cousin repulse really fast.

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Seismic

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Definition

Caused by or having to do with earthquates.

 

There is a lot of things that can be seismic.

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Undulate

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Definition

To form or move in waves.

 

The ocean is undulated sometimes.

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Upheaval

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Definition

A radical or violent change.

 

There is a lot of things that have an upheaval.

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