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Vocab Q3

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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Persnickety
fussy or hard to please
Finicky, Meticulous, Painstaking

Eloquent
Powerful, moving speech
Sentence: Anna came to the front of the room and gave an eloquent moving speech

Denizen
Lives in certain place
Sentence: The denizen person wanted to stay at home.

Conundrum
Puzzling question or problem
Sentence: The teacher gave us a puzzling conundrum to solve in math

Preside
To be in charge
Sentence: I will preside and take charge of the meeting.

Innovation
A change in the usual way
Sentence: An innovation is lady gaga, she is much different than we are used too.

Ardent
Enthusiastic or full of positive emotion
Sentence: The ardent kid was very excited.

Persnickety
Fussy of hard to please
Sentence: The persnickety parent was hard to please at conferences.

Mellifluous
Smoothly or sweet flowing
Sentence: The smooth mellifluous water was flowing nicely.

Askew
Twisted the wrong way
Sentence: The road was askew and twisted making it hard to drive on.

Xenophobia
Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
Sentence: Adolf Hitler was xenophobia about Jews, making him do wrong things.