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Vocabulary

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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VOCABULARY

ABBY PARMER
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MUSTER

  • To assemble or to gather or summon
  • "All I could muster was a thank you"
  • Rally

POSSE

  • A body or force with legal authority
  • "The police was protecting the large crowd"
  • Gang

BOON

  • A thing that is helpful or beneficial
  • "The medicine was boon for me"

DROLL

  • Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement, jester or an entertainer
  • "You're such a droll"

INCITE

  • To encourage or stir up
  • Women are being incite.
  • Fuel

ENDURE

  • Suffer
  • I will have to endure that shot

DURESS

  • Threats, violence
  • There's a lot of duress in this movie

EVADE

  • Escape , avoid
  • "I want to evade my homework."
  • Avoid

IMPASSE

  • A situation where there is no progress
  • My mom and I are in an impasse

SUBSIST

  • Maintain or support oneself
  • I can subsist myself.

CONDONE

  • Accept or allow to continue
  • "I can conclude with this test."
  • Continue

UNCANNY

  • Strange and mysterious
  • "This place is uncanny"

PREVAIL

  • Prove more powerful
  • My team is more prevail then the other team

EXODUS

  • A mass departure of people
  • "There are a lot of people leaving the venue."

DISARMING

  • (of manner or behavior) having the effect of allaying suspicion or hostility, especially through charm.
  • "I gave her a disarming smile"

IMPERATIVE

  • of vital importance; crucial.
  • "It's imperative the we leave!"

SUSTAIN

  • strengthen or support physically or mentally.
  • "I can sustain anything."

STALEMATE

  • a position counting as a draw, in which a player is not in check but cannot move except into check.
  • "My football team uses stalemate to help the players."

SCRUPLE

  • a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action.
  • "I feel like scruple before my test."

QUARRY

  • a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted.
  • "There was an comet that landed here."

DEBACLE

  • a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.
  • " This party is a debacle."

CULTIVATED

  • refined and well educated
  • "He was a very cultivated man."
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BARBAROUS

  • savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal.
  • "That man was very barbarous."
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TANGIBLE

  • Perceptible by touch
  • "That glass is very tangible."
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FRACTIOUS

  • (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome. "they fight and squabble like fractious children"
  • "That child is very fractious."