Vocab Quarter 2
Published on Dec 09, 2015
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SUBJUGATION
BEING UNDER COMPLEAT CONTROL
THE DICTATOR WAS A SUBJUATION.
OUR RELATIONS WITH THE INDIANS HAVE BEEN GOVERNED CHIEFLY BY TREATIES AND TRADE, OR WAR AND SUBJUGATION. NELSON A. MILLER
UNDULATING.
TO MOVE IN WAVELIKE MOTION.
THE UNDULATING HILL WAS COOL.
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. Janet Echelman
COPIOUS
IN LARGE QUANTITY.
THE STORE HAD A COPIOUS OF SHOES.
"Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff."
CONGENIAL
FRIENDLY, HAVING THE SAME TASTES.
THE TWO ROBOTS WERE A CONGENIAL GROUP.
THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS IS TO FIND A CONGENIAL MONOTONY.
FEIGN
TO FAKE
A LOT OF PEOPLE FEIGN HAPPINESS.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
PREEMINENTLY
HAVING IMPORTANCE.
THE KING IS PREEMINENT.
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PROGENCY
A DESCENDANT OR OFFSPRING, AS A CHILD.
THE CHILD WAS A PROGENY OF HER FATHER.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive..
QUINTESSENTIAL
THE MOST PERFECT EMBODIMENT OF SOMETHING.
THE APPLE WAS QUINTESSENTIAL.
My father was the quintessential husband and dad.
SCRUPULOUS
WITH STRICK REGARD TO WHATS PROPER.
THE TEACHER WAS VERY SCRUPULOUS.
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
VACILLATE
TO HESITATE BETWEEN CHOICES.
THE PRESIDENT VACILLATED.
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ZEALOUS
DEVOTED OR DILIGENT.
THE BOY WAS A ZEALOUS READER.
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. George Washington
DISCERN
TO DETECT OR IDENTIFY WITH YOUR SENSES
THE DETECTIVE DISCERNED AND USED HIS SENSES.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. Henry David Thoreau
ENIGMATIC
SOMETHING HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
THE CONFUSED MAN MAN WAS ENIGMATIC.
I get interested in writers who are enigmatic. Harry Hamlin
FACETIOUS
NOT MENT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
THE FUNNY DOG WAS FACETIOUS.
I get interested in writers who are enigmatic. Harry Hamlin
GRATUITOUS
GIVEN WITHOUT RECEIVING
THE WOMEN WAS VERY GRATUITOUS.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. SimoneWEIL
RHETORICAL
ASKED MERLY FOR EFFECT WITH NO ANSEWR EXPECTED.
THE MAN ASKED A RHETORICAL QUESTION.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana
RIVETED
ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION AND HELD THE ATTENTION OF COMPLETLY.
THE SPEKER WAS GOOD AT RIVETING.
I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do! John Travolta
UBIQUITOUS
EXISTING OR BEING EVERYWHERE.
