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Vocabulary 5
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10th Grade
09/29/2022

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Term
Treatise 
Definition

Defenition: A noun that refers to something long like an essay. 

 

 

Sentence: I asked isbell a simple question about his son, but he game me a ten minute treatise on base ball 

Term
Initiation 
Definition

Def- The action of admitting someone into a secret. 

 

Sent - the initiation of criminal proceedings.

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Divinity 
Definition

Def - The state or quality of being divine 

 

Sent- Christs divinity is major across the USA. 

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Insinuate
Definition

Def - suggest or hint something (most of the time bad) in an indirect way.  

 

Sent - He was insinuating that i had no self control 

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Annihilate 
Definition

Def - destroy utterly, obliterate 

 

        Sent - A simple bomb could annihilate all of them. 

 

Term
Surname 
Definition

Def - A hereditary name that is passed down from generations in your family.

 

Sent - She changed his surname once he got married. 

Term
Encumbered 
Definition

Def - Strict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult. 

 

Sent - She was encumbered by her skirt every time she walked. 

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Insignificant 
Definition

Def - Too small or unimportant to be worth consideration 

 

Sent - The amount was significant meaning that the card was declined. 

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Pro-foundly
Definition

Def - To a profound extent; extremely 

 

Sent - to profoundly disturbing experience 

 

 

 

Term
Deportee
Definition

Def - a person who is expelled from a country 

 

Sent - immigrants are considered deportees. 

Term
Emigration 
Definition

Def - The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving about

 

Sent - Mass emigration from Ireland to the us 

Term
Treatise 
Definition

Def - A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject 

 

Sent - a comprehensive treatise on electricity and magnetism 

Term
Anecdote 
Definition

Def - A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. 

 

Sent - Told anecdotes about his job 

Term
Melancholy 
Definition

Def - A feeling of pensive sadness , typically with no obvious cause. 

 

Sent - An air of melancholy surrounded him

Term

      Surreptitious

Definition

Def - Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.

 

Sent - They carried on a surreptitious 

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