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Vocab

Published on Nov 25, 2015

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VOCABULARY

JOSHUA ECHEVERRIA

PREVAIL

  • To gain ascendency through strength and superiority
  • Michael oher prevailed through life despite his challanges
  • The team should prevail if they work hard.

CHATEAU

  • A castle or fortress
  • Rainsford came upon a mysterious chateau
  • Michael had a chateau located in London.

AU REVOIR

  • Until we see each other again
  • Bob said "au revoir" to Sam as he left for France.
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EVADE

  • To escape from by trickery or cleverness
  • Cat woman evaded batman on several equations
  • The criminal tried to evade the cops after he robbed the bank.
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INCITE

  • To stir, encourage, or urge on
  • The coach tried to incite his players in the game.
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QUANDARY

  • A state of perplexity or doubt
  • John was very quandary about his test that he didn't study for.
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DILEMMA

  • An argument present two or more conclusive alternatives against an opponent
  • Jake and Andrew had a major dilemma about their project.
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IMPASSE

  • A predicament affording to no obvious escape.
  • The weak gladiator was at a impasse with the three headed snake.

STALE MATE

  • A drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play.
  • Juan and Richard were at a stalemate in their chess game.
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TANGIABLE

  • Capable of being perceived by the sense of truth.
  • The characters were as tangible as all of us standing in this room.
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CULTIVATED

  • Refined and well educated
  • Sara was cultivated then other student in her class.

AMENITY

  • The quality of being pleasant or agreeable.
  • Jim had many qualities one of them was amenity.
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DROLL

  • Having a humorous whimsical odd quality.
  • Homer has many qualities one of them was being a droll.
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IMPERATIVE

  • Relating to, or consulting the grammatical mood that expresses the will to influence the behavior of another.
  • Jay was very imperative in his speech.

MARADING

  • To roam about and raid in search of plunder.
  • The theifs were marading throughout the whole village.
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UNCANNY

  • Strange or unusual way that is surprising or difficult to understand
  • Tourist are uncanny to foreign countries.
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FRACTIOUS

  • Causing trouble; hard to manage or control.
  • The jokers actions were always fractious
  • Mark was very fractious in class.

MUSTER

  • A formal military gathering to examine or test soliders
  • Soliders hated doing a muster because of the time it took.

TRUCLENT

  • EASEASILY ANNOYED OR ANGRED AND LIKELY TO ARUGUEILY ANNOYED OR ANGRED AND LIKELY TO ARUGUE
  • April was very truclent because the kid next to her couldn't stop talking.

DEBACLE

  • A great disaster or complete failure
  • Hades attempt to punish the humans was a debacle
  • China had a great debacle in the beginning of the year.

EXODUS

  • A mass departure
  • The birds had a big exodus during the winter.

DISARMING

  • Allaying criticism or hostility
  • Germany's military was disarming by the United Nations.
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CONDONE

  • To accept or allow
  • The police condone this area for the public to be in after the disaster.

ENDURE

  • To suffer pain
  • The solider had to endure a lot in the war because of his injury
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DURESS

  • Forcible restraint or restriction
  • The area was under duress by police.