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Vocabulary From ClassicalRoots
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English
10th Grade
09/28/2007

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1. Subvert   [veertere <L."to turn"]

Definition

 tr. v. To upset; to overthrow; to ruin

I subvert Anthony's title reign when I won the championship

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2. Subservient       [servare <L. "to serve]
Definition

    adj. Exceessively willing to yield; submissive.

Anthony is subservient because he follows the losing rule.

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      3. contort       [con=cum <L. "with"]

 

Definition

tr. v. To twist or bend out of shape.

 Some people are Contort because they can bend a lot.

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           4. distort

Definition

tr. v. 1. To change something to make it false

Put false info in a true sentence 

 

2. To twist (something) out of its natural shape. 

to twist a popsickal around. 

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               5. Retort
Definition

tr. and intr. v. To reply quickly and sharply, often as if in reply to an accusation.

 

n. a quick, witty, sometimes biting reply.

Anthony ina quick bugger. 

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                6. Tortuous
Definition

adj. 1. Hoving many twists and turns

 

2. Deceitfully roundabout; tricky.

Anthony is very tricky in the ring. 

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        7. adversity

Definition

n. Hardship; misfortune

 

Thomas Work adversity because he is a fighting champ.  

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      8. avert
Definition

tr. v. To run away

 Anthony avert because he run away when I am in the zone.

2. To prevent 

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   9. introvert
Definition

n. A person whose whose thoughts and interests are directed inward

 Bob introvert his interests inwards to everybody.

Term
   10.Perverse
Definition

adj. Stubbornly doing something other than what is reasonable or required.

 

The children took Perverse pleasure on hiding from their sitter. 

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    11.Prose
Definition

n. Ordinary speech or witting wothout rhyme or meter.

 

adj. Referring to speech or witing other that verse

 

Bob prose because he refers to speech all the time. 

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