Term
engender
Example:
When the principal announced that students could no longer wear sneakers to school, it engendered anger in the student body |
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Definition
Definition:
To ring a feeling into existence
Word Family:
(Engernders, engendered, engendering) |
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pacify
Example:
After dropping her cell phone in the muddy puddle, i tried to pacify my friend by offering her a big, warm hug. |
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Definition
Definition:
To ease someone's anger: calm someone down
Word family:
(Pacified, pacifying, pacifies, pacifist, pacifier) |
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Term
ardent
Example:
Being an ardent Bills fan, MArk painted his face half red and hald blue to show his love for the team.
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Definition
Definition:
Enthusiastic support
Word family:
(Ardently) |
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exacerbate
Example: The singer's terrible voice was exacerbated by the awful pianist who didn't know how to accompany her.
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Definition
Definition:
To make something bad even worse
Word family:
( Exacerbates, exacerbating, exacerbated, excerbating) |
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Term
sagacious
Example: Samuel Westing Jr. lll had always been a sagacious business man known for his shrewd negotiating style
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Definition
Definition:
Good judgement
Word family:
(Sagaciously)
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Term
dissolution
Example:
The Alka-seltzer tablet's dissolution was instant once it fell into the glass of water and birtually disappeared. |
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Definition
Definition:
The disintegration or decomposition of something
Word family:
(Dissolutions) |
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Term
contagion
Example:
Once the idea of sotrming the Batille took hold, it spread like a contagion among the people. |
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Definition
Definition:
The spreading of a disease or idea fro mone person to another trhrough close contact
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(contagions) |
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Term
pestilence
Example:
The Ebola virus is a horrific pestilence that aws just as easily spread as the bubonic plague.
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Definition
Definition:
A fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague.
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( Pestilences) |
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Term
writhe
Sample sentence:
The majestic lion writhed in pain, its body twisting in strange patterns after being shot with a tranquilizer gun at close range. |
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Definition
Definition:
To make continual twisting movements of the body
Word family
(writhes, writhing, writhed) |
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Term
pivotal
Sample sentence:
Graduating from high school was a huge achievement in Hank's life and a pivotal movement in the life of his mother as well. |
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Definition
Definition:
of crucial importance in relation to the success of something else
Word family:
(pivot, pivoting, pivots, pivoted) |
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