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to make more noticeable
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The girl accentuated her bright orange hair with a giant yellow bow which seemed to make it even more orange!
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to strive for an ambitious goal
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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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-d, -s, -ing, aspiration
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noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy.
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The students in the gym were really boisterous yelling and cheering-on their Bubble Ball teammates.
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boisterously
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behavior in keeping with good taste; etiquette.
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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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a person's individual way of walking
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We had slowed to a cautious gait and were feeling our way forward so as not to bump into the trees.
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to steal something.
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Jeremy must have purloined a copy of the school's master key because that is the only way he could have gotten into the cafeteria without breaking a window.
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purloined, purloins, purloining
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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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Many English teachers cringe when they hear their students use the non-word "mines."
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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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He alienated most of his friends with his bad temper and soon no one even texted him anymore.
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a formal ruling that someone is guilty of a crime.
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It is my firm conviction that all students have the ability to learn and be successful.
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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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Brother Maurice lived in a beautiful monastery on Bolivia for most of his life.
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