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English III - Vocabulary 7
Antonio Berry
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11th Grade
01/19/2016

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Archipelago

(Noun)

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Definition

A large group of islands.

 

 

The archipelago was very large.

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Careen

(v.)

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Definition

To rush headlong, often with a swerving or lurching motion.

 

The ship was in a careen motion.

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Cavalier

(Adj.)

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Definition

Showing an off hand or carefree disegard; arrogant.

 

The girl was showing that she was very cavalier.

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Contigous 

(Adj.)

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Definition

Sharing a boundary; being very close or in contact; adjacent.

 

The two states are contigious.

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Correlate

(v.)

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Definition

To connect related things; to bring things into proper relation with one another.

 

The kids had to correlate the causes and effects for their project.

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Etymology

(N.)

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Definition

The history of a word.

 

The word grape has a lot of etymology.

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Frenetic

(adj.)

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Definition

Widly excited; frantic

 

The dog was very frenetic.

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Kinetic

(adj.)

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Definition

Relating to motion.

 

Moving cars are a form of being kinetic.

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Presage

(v.)

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Definition

To foretell; to warn or indicate in advance.

 

I hope someone gives him a presage before he goes and does that.

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Pulverize

(v.)

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Definition

To crush or gring into dust or powder.

 

The bully pulverized the boy.

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Recondite

(adj.)

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Definition

Difficult to understand; abstruse.

 

 

The foreign kid was very recondite.

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Repulse

(v.)

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Definition

To repel; to drive back

 

The left tackle repulsed the quaterback.

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seismic

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Definition

Caused by or having to do with earthquakes.

 

The seismic showed everything that happened during the earthquake.

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Undulate

(v.)

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Definition

To form or move in waves.

 

There was a lot of undulate in the ocean.

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Upheaval

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Definition

A radical or violent change.

 

The new law was very upheaval.

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