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Term 3 Vocab
Term 3 Vocabulario
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ambiguous | The sentence was ambigious beacuse the "he" could mean either Bill or Bob. |
| Bolster | The nurse bolstered his leg with a pillow by lifting it up and merely cramping the pillow in between his leg and the bed. |
| Cerebral | When the baby was born, due to a lack of oxygen, she had cerebral issues and her brain remained damaged throughout her adulthood. |
| Explicit | The paper expressed the explicit rules of the classroom, leaving no room for questions. |
| Hibernal | The town had little hibernal activity, and for this reason winter was its least busy season. |
| Juxtapose | In order to compare th eaction figures, the little boy juxtaposed them, holding them close enough together to see which one was taller. |
| Mercenary | The mercenary was so intent for material gain that she did not realize what else she was gaining from her job. |
| Orifice | The orifice into the heart contains red blood cells, which enter through this opening. |
| Pittance | The pittance of a salery that some members of a third world country recieve is due to United States industries taking advantage of them. |
| Tepid | The tepid water did not refresh her at all, as you'd imagine lukewarm water wouldn't. |
| Wan | Her wan face, so pale from illness, almost blended into the white background |
| Anthropomorphic | Her dreasm seemed to be anthropomorphic, where all creatures had human characteristics. |
| Bourgeois | Before the Renaissance, the basic creatin of the middle class, there were hardly any bourgeois families in Italy. |
| Carmine | "It was carmine," she said picking up the vivide red dress, "like this." |
| Curmudgeon | The curmudgeon slammed the door as he stomped out of the house, still claiming that he was right. |
| Eclective | His report was so electic that it was confusing, and that's when he learned to limit hi samoutn of sources and styles. |
| Garrulous | It was garrulous; it contained many words but I don't remember it having a point. |
| Immutable | His decision was immuntable and no amount of convincing would change his mind. |
| Recidivism | Even after he did so well in rehab, when he got back on the street he underwent a recidivism and was back in jail within a month. |
| Shoal | He hid in the shoal, thinking he would never be seen with the protection of hundreds of other people. |