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CRTmanuel
Vocabulary
| Vocabulary terms | Definition | Sentence example | Synonyms | Part of speech |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immaculate | free from stains or unclean | She was no longer an unclean person after her mother passed away. | clean, pure, or spotless | adj. |
| Ostentatiously | making an impressive display in size or power | My mother spoke ostentatiously of herself. | boastful, dashing, or showy. | adj. |
| palpitated | to tremble, shake, or quiver | When the children heard their mother yell they began to papitate | flutter, pulsate, or throb | verb |
| pompadour | a hairstyle formed by sweeping the hair up from their forehead | The first time I saw my biological father, he had a pompadour | noun | |
| pulsated | to expand and contrast rhythmically | I was so nervous my legs began to pulsate very quickly | beat, palpitate, or pant | verb |
| reverberating | to echo repeatly | We could hear this reverbrating noise coming from inside the cave | echo, resound, or retum | verb |
| relinquished | to push aside or desisted from | The children were relinquished when they needed their mother's help the most. | abadon, desert, and forsake | verb |
| impervious | uncapable of seeing through something | A person is impervious to a tree | impassable, impermeable | adj |
| quintessentially | the purest most essential element of a thing | My heart is the quintessentially of my body | adj | |
| commodity | something useful that can be turned to commerical advantages | Birth Control became a commodity after the rates for unwanted pregencies decreased. | goods, produce, or wares | noun |
| menial | of or relating to work regarded as servile (slave) | In the movie Cinderlla, the evil step mother treated Cinderella as a menial. | footman, or flunkey | noun |
| miscegeration | cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage between persons of different races | My mother is an African American and is Hispanic so they are miscegeration. | noun | |
| mediocre | moderate to inferior in quality | My jeans are mediocre because I'm not really tall. | average, common place, median | adj. |
| Euphemistic | the submission of a term for one considered blunt | My mother can become very euphemistic when she wants to be. | offensive | adj. |
| Macroeconomics | the study of the overall workings of a national economy | The stock market can be known as macroeconomics. | noun | |
| merits | an aspect of character or behavior deserving approval or disapproval | Many young children expect their parents to give them merits of approval. | noun | |
| phenotypic | the environmentally determined visible apperance of an organism | Sometimes when you see a tree that has been struck by lighting you would look at the tree from a phenotypic point of view. | adj | |
| coherent | the attraction by which the elements of a body are held together. | The coherent between your head and your shoulders is the neck. | adherent, connected, or united | adj |
| delineate | to draw or trace the outline of. | When I was younger I use to get coloring books that had tracing paper in them and began to delineate. | design, draw, figure, or paint | verb |
| disparities | differences | There are many disparities between breast and prostate cancer. | unequal, unlikeness | adj |
| assimilate | to take in, digest, and transform (food) into living tissue | When someone is paralized from the neck down they have to assimilate because they are not able to feed themselves. | accept, obtain, or grasp | verb |
| antagonist | one who opposes | My brother and younger cousin alwaus play the role of the antagonist. | disharmony, dissinant, or opposition | noun |
| blear | to dim or blur | When you wake up in the morning sleep causes your eyes to blear | stain, dim, or darken | verb |
| beneficiaries | one that recieves a benefit, as funds, property from an insurance policy or will | Many people came from various states to get beneficiaries for their children. | help, advantages, or profit | noun |
| scrounged | tor beg | Many children scrounge even though they really don't have too. | ask, crave, or request | verb |
| caveat | a waring or caution | When people travel on the expressway there are signs that say slow down the roads ahead are slippery. | care, or watchfulness | noun |
| staggering | to move or cause unsteady movement | When people drink alot they begin to stagger after drinking a few drinks. | sawy or reel | adv |
| quota | the max number of people, that may be admitted to the nation, group or institute | In the Nursing 101 class there is a quota of 35 students. | portion, quality, or share | noun |
| upheaveal | the process of being upset | When I don't get my way I become upheaveal. | disorder, outburst, or overthrow | noun |
| ruptures | the state of being broken | When my cousin fell off his bed he ruptured his arm. | break, brust, fracture or split | noun |
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