Word List #17

1. Adipose: Fatty

• “The liposuction procedure removes adipose tissue.”

2. Arpeggio: to play chords in a rapid succession

• “The violinist played the fast song in arpeggio.”

3. Behooves: is fitting for

• “If you want to pass, it behooves you to study for your test.”

4. Canon: 1. complete works; 2. important principle; 3. member of the clergy attached to a cathedral; 4. body of law

• “I read the entire canon of Shakespeare.”

• “The equality of all people is a canon of our democracy.”

• “The canon is a member of the Vatican.”

• “The United Code of Military

Justice is the canon of the

military.”

5. Cohere: to stick

• “The materials will cohere if you use a little glue.”

6. Desuetude: disuse

• “When the doctor removed my cast, my leg muscle had shrunken due to desuetude.”

7. Factitious: artificial

• “The employee kissed up to his boss by showing factitious concern for his illness.

8. Impugn: to call into question

• “The President’s decision to go to war was impugned by his opponents.”

9. Indent: to space in from the margin

• “When you begin a new paragraph, indent five spaces for the first line.”

10. Lorgnette: eyeglasses with a handle

• “The woman in the balcony raised her lorgnette to see the opera better.”

11. obstreperous: stubborn

• “I rarely change my mind because of my obstreperous personality.”

12. Plentitude: abundance

• “Corn growns in plentitude in the Midwest.”

13. Rarified: lacking density; socially select

• “The pilot could barely breathe the rarified air at such an altitude.”

• “The ‘in-crowd’ was made up of

• rarified students.”

14. Sentient: having feelings

• “Dr. Frankenstein used body parts to create a sentient creature.”

15. Suture: to stitch

• “When the patient reported to the ER with lacerations, the doctor sutured his wounds.”

16. Tercentenary: three-hundred year anniversary

• “In the year 2076, the United States will celebrate its tercentenary.”

17. Venial: forgivable

• “I can overlook your venial offense if you will overlook mine.”

Assignment

• Show mastery of each vocabulary word by writing a sentence that demonstrates its meaning.

• Underline the vocabulary word in

the sentence.

• Skip lines between sentences.