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Wordly Wise Lesson 7
Vocabulary Seven
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English
11th Grade
01/20/2016

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Archipelago

 

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Careen
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Cavalier

(adj)

 

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Contiguous

(adj)

 

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Correlate

(verb)

 

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etymology

(noun)

 

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Frenetic

(adj)

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Wildly excited;frantic

 

 

 

The band director was frenetic about marching in the parade.

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Kinetic

(adj)

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Definition

Relating to motion




Everyone uses kinetic at school when they are walking.

 

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Presage

(verb)

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To foretell;to warn or indicate in advance

 

 

 

The fortune teller tried to presage the students about their accident before it happened.

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Pulverize

(verb)

(pulverized)

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1. To crush or grind into dust or powder

2. To demolish



We pulverized the wood in our vo-tech class today.

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Recondite

(adj)

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Difficult to understand;abstruse

 

 

 

My teacher asked us to remember a recondite formula for the test.

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Repulse

(verb)

 

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Seismic

(adj)

 

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1. Caused by or having to do with earthquakes

2. Having powerful and widespread effects

 

 

 

Seismic changes in the earth's crust caused the break in the freeway.

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Undulate

(verb)

(undulation) noun

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1. To form or move in waves

2. To have a wavelike appearance or motion

 

 

 

The water moved with undulation at the beach.

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Upheaval

(noun)

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1. A radical or violent change

2. A forceful lifting or warping from beneath

 

 

 

The Civil Rights Movement sparked a time of upheaval across the United States.

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