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Accentuate
(-d, -s, -ing)
The girl accentuated her bright orange hair with a giant yellow bow which seemed to make it even more orange! |
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Aspire
(-d, -s, -ing, aspiration)
When I was younger, I aspired to become a famous stage actor even though I felt it was an unattainable goal. |
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| to strive for an ambitious goal |
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Boisterous
(boisterously)
The students in the gym were really boisterous yelling and cheering-on their Bubble Ball teammates. |
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| noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy. |
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Decorum
It took all the decorum Frankie had to walk past the group of boys with class and not look at them while they screamed for her phone number. |
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| behavior in keeping with good taste; etiquette. |
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Refugee
(refugees)
Many child refugees experience the horrors of war before they leave their home countries in order to find a safe place to live. |
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| a person forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster. |
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Endure
(-d, -s, -ing, endurance)
It is unbelievable that a child can endure such horrible living conditions and still manage to smile. |
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| to patiently suffer something painful or difficult; to remain in existence or last a long time. |
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Cringe
(-ed, -s, -ing)
Many English teachers cringe when they hear their students use the non-word "mines." |
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to feel disgust or embarrassment often through movement of your face or body; to make a sudden movement out of fear of being hurt. |
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Alienate
(-ed, -s, -ing)
He alienated most of his friends with his bad temper and soon no one even texted him anymore. |
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| to cause someone to feel that he or she no longer belongs to a particular group or part of society. |
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Conviction
(convict, -ed, -s, -ing)
It is my firm conviction that all students have the ability to learn and be successful. |
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a firmly held belief; a formal ruling that someone is guilty of a crime. |
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Monastery
Brother Maurice lived in a beautiful monastery on Bolivia for most of his life. |
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| the place where a group of nuns or monks work and live either as a group or alone. |
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