Term
brazen
Sample Sentence
James made several brazen attempts to cross the busy street on his tricycle, but he chickened our every time.
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Definition
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An exagerated fearlessness or boldness.
Word Family Members
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deftly
Sample Sentence
The crowd roared with applause when alisha finished her deftly executed routine.
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Definition
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to move in a quick and skillful manner
Word Family Members
deft
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Term
fetish
Sample Sentence
Jeremy had an abnormal, childish fetish for sucking his thumb, even though he was fourteen years old.
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Definition
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an abnormal attention or attachment
Word family memeber
none
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Term
impulse
Sample Sentence
Even though he had the impulse to run and hide, Laron courageously stood strong and face the bully. |
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Definition
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a sudden wish or urge
Word family memeber
impulsively |
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Term
intuition
sample sentence
Megan trusted her intuition anout her date and left the restuarant without saying goodbye because she had a feeling something was odd.
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Definition
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a sense of knowing; an insight
Word Family Memeber
intuitively, inuit
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Term
lapse
Sample Sentence
While waiting to go on stage, Alvin experienced a momentary lapse into stage fright, but he pulled himself out it and went on with the show.
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Definition
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to sink or slip gradually
Word Family Member
lapsed, lapsing |
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Term
reverie
Sample Sentence
Like most of her daydreams about Carl, in this reverie, she found herself at the carnival taking selfies and holding hands. |
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a daydream
Word Family Memebers
reveries
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Term
meditation
Sample Sentence
Befreo Kalvin made the decision to break up wiht Sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several days
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Definition
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an act of deep thinking or reflection
Word Family Members
meditate, meditating, meditates, meditated
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Term
tedious
Sample Sentence
Every minute she waited for her mother to pick her up after school became moe tedious because she had nothing to do. |
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boring, tiresome because of length, slowness or dullness
Word Famliy Members
tediously
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Term
perverse
Sample Sentence
Gizelle thought it was a perverted twist of fate that she wound up in an interview with Cara Smithers, the woman she bullied relentlessly in eighth
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Definition
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turned away from what is right or wrong
Word Family Member
perverted, pervert |
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