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Vocabulary: fodder for brilliant thoughts. English 9 Unit 3. She was a strict adherent to the Atkins diet until it wasn’t cool anymore. adherent (n.) a follower, supporter; (adj.) attached, sticking to marauder (n.) a raider, plunderer rift (n.) a split, break, breach. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Vocabulary: fodder for brilliant thoughts
English 9 Unit 3
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She was a strict adherent to the Atkins diet until it wasn’t cool anymore.
adherent (n.) a follower, supporter; (adj.) attached, sticking to marauder (n.) a raider, plunderer rift (n.) a split, break, breach
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The eminent teacher retired after 35 years.
usurp (v.) to seize and hold a position by force
or without right eminent (adj.) famous, outstanding, distinguished;
projecting condone (v.) to pardon or overlook
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Beg as you may, I will not abridge the vocabulary test.
irate (adj.) angry abridge (v.) to make shorter obesity (n.) extreme fatness
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How wonderful to see your cherubic faces in the morning.
cherubic (adj.) resembling an angel portrayed as a
little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent
surmount (v.) to overcome, rise above
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There appears to be a rift in their teeth.
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You can surmount this obstacle and conquer your obesity.
angry irate (adj.) to make shorter abridge (v.) extreme fatness obesity (n.)
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Though he says he’s helping them, the people in that neighborhood consider him a marauder.
(n.) a follower, supporter; (adj.) attached, sticking to adherent a raider, plunderer marauder (n.) a split, break, breach rift (n.)
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All parents consider their children cherubic – even if only for a moment.
resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face;
cherubic (adj.) to overcome, rise above surmount (v.)
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The coup’s leaders usurped the king’s throne.
to seize and hold a position by force or without right
usurp (v.) famous, outstanding, distinguished;
projecting eminent (adj.) to pardon or overlook condone (v.)
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NOT cherubic
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Cherubic
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The speech at the funeral was insultingly trite.
trite (adj.) commonplace; overused, stale altercation (n.) an angry argument pilfer (v.) to steal in small quantities
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She expressed her dissent regarding the plan and got fired for it.
dissent (v.) to disagree (n.) disagreement exorcise (v.) to drive out by magic; to dispose of
something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive
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I terminated grades and students cheered with joy.
semblance (n.) a likeness; an outward appearance;
an apparition terminate (v.) to bring to an end pauper (n.) an extremely poor person
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I could fabricate sentences all day.
fabricate (v.) to make, manufacture; to make up,
invent
GRATUITOUS WORD APPROACHING circuitous (adj.) roundabout, not direct
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That purse has the semblance of Mom!
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He presented the semblance of an intelligent man, but then he spoke.
a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition
semblance (n.)
to bring to an end terminate (v.)
an extremely poor person pauper (n.)
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Stan the man pilfered croutons from the salad bar.
commonplace; overused, stale trite (adj.) an angry argument altercation (n.) to steal in small quantities pilfer (v.)
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She exorcised the problems that plagued her the year before and did wonderfully.
(v.) to disagree (n.) disagreement dissent
to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive
exorcise (v.)
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Sometimes I take the circuitous way home.
to make, manufacture; to make up, invent
fabricate (v.)
GRATUITOUS WORD APPROACHING roundabout, not direct circuitous (adj.)
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When life terminates, pick a pretty cemetery.