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Vocabulary List 2
English vocab list 2
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Language - English
8th Grade
12/05/2017

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Term

Engender

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

to bring a feeling to existence

 

SAMPLE SENTENCE

When the principal announced that students could no longer wear sneakers to school, in engendered anger in the student body.

 

WORD FAMILY MEMBERS

(engenders, engendered, engendering)

Term

Pacify

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

 

to ease someone’s anger; calm someone down

 

 

 

SAMPLE SENTENCE

After dropping her cell phone in the muddle puddle, I tried to pacify my friend by offering her a big, warm hug.

 

 

 

WORD FAMILY MEMBERS

(pacified, pacifier, pacifying, pacifies, pacifist)

 

Term

Ardent

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

 

enthusiastic support

 

 

SAMPLE SENTENCE

Being an ardent Bills fan, Mark painted his face half red and half blue to show his love for the team.

 

 

 

WORD FAMILY MEMBERS

(ardently)

 

Term

Exacerbate

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

 

to make something bad even worse

 

 

SAMPLE SENTENCE

 

The singer's terrible voice was exacerbated by the awful pianist who didn't know how to accompany her.

 

WORD FAMILY MEMBERS

 

(exacerbates, exacerbating, exacerbated)

Term

Sagacious

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

 

good judgement; shrewd

 

 

SAMPLE SENTENCE
Samuel Westing Jr. III had always been a sagacious business man known for his shrewd negotiating style.

 

 

 

WORD FAMILY MEMBERS

(sagaciously)

 

Term

Dissolution

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

 

 

the disintegration or decomposition of something

 

SAMPLE SENTENCE

 

The Alka-seltzer tablet's dissolution was instant once it fell into the glass of water and virtually disappeared.

 

 

WORD FAMILY MEMBERS

 

(dissolutions)

Term

Contagion

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

 

the spreading of a disease or idea from one person to another through close contact


SAMPLE SENTENCE

Once the idea of storming the Bastille took hold, it spread like a contagion among the people.



WORD FAMILY MEMBERS

 

(contagions)

 

Term

Pestilence

 

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

 

a fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague




SAMPLE SENTENCE

The Ebola virus is a horrific pestilence that was just as easily spread as the bubonic plague


WORD FAMILY MEMBERS

 

 

(pestilences) 

Term

Writhe

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

 

 

to make continual twisting movements of the body.

 

 

 

SAMPLE SENTENCE

The majestic lion writhed in pain, its body twisting in strange patterns, after being shot with a tranquilizer gun at close range.


FAMILY WORD MEMBERS

(writhes, writhing, writhed)

 

Term

Pivotal

 

 

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Definition

DEFINITION

of crucial importance in relation to the success of something else.


SAMPLE SENTENCE

 

Graduating from high school was a huge achievement in Hank's life and a pivotal moment in the life of his mother as well.


FAMILY WORD MEMBERS

 

(pivot, pivoting, pivots, pivoted)

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