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Isbell English 2 - Vocab 5
Macarthure Highschool
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English
10th Grade
09/29/2022

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 Initiation

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Definition: The action of admitting someone into a secret or obscure society or group, typically with a ritual.
 
 

Sentence: When i wanted to join a club they said we had to do an Initiation first.

 

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Divinity

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Defenition: The state or quality of being divine.

 

Sentence: Most people belive in someone else that is Divinity.

 

 
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Insinuate

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Defnitan: suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way.
 

Sentence: "he was insinuating that I had no self-control"

 

 
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Annihilate

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Defenition: Destroy utterly; obliterate.

 

Sentence:"a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all"

 

 
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Dispersed

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Defenition: Distribute or spread over a wide area.

 

Sentence: "storms can disperse seeds via high altitudes"

 

 
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Surname

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Defenition:A hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a given name.

Sentence:"he changed his surname from Kaye to Kasmin"

 

 
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Encumbered

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Definition:restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.

Sentence:"she was encumbered by her heavy skirts"

 

 
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Insignificant

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Definiton: too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.
 
Sentence: 

"the amount required was insignificant compared with military spending"

 

 

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Profoundly

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Defenition: to a profound extent; extremely.

Sentence: "a profoundly disturbing experience"

 
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Deportee

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Defenition: 

  1. a person who has been or is being expelled from a country.
     
    Sentence: Many hispanics are deportees
     
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Emigration

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Defeniton:The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
 
Sentence:

"mass emigration from Ireland to the United States"

 

 

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Treatise

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Defenition: a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

Sentence: "a comprehensive treatise on electricity and magnetism"

 

 

 
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Anecdote

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Defeniton: a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

Sentence:"told anecdotes about his job"

 

 

 
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Melancholy

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Defeniton: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
 
Sentence:

"an air of melancholy surrounded him"

 

 

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Surreptitious

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Defenition:kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.

Sentence: "they carried on a surreptitious affair"

 

 

 
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