Sycophant By: Faith Harp

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SycophantBy Faith Harp

• Adjective
• Pronounced sik-uh-fuhnt
• Definition A servile, self-seeking flatterer.
• -Servile- meanly submissive
• When her career was riding high, the
  self-deluded actress often mistook sycophants for
  true friends.
• Synonyms Suck-up, brownnoser, follower
• Source www.merriam-webster.com

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Malice

• noun 1. desire to inflict injury, harm, or
  suffering on another, either because of a hostile
  impulse or out of deep-seated meanness the
  malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
• 2. Law . evil intent on the part of a person
  who commits a wrongful act injurious to others.
• O.K. , so we don't always see eye to eye but
  there's never been any real malice in our
  dealings before.
• Dakota Vinson

• Dictionary.com
• Google

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Adjective
Irascible
Justin Crenshaw
Pronunciation
\i-ra-s?-b?l\

• Becoming angry easily
• Marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger.
• Crabby grumpy grouchy choleric irritable

The irascible man threw the expensive mug at the
wall.
Irascible. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
2008. web. 9 Mar. 2011.
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Elation (Noun) Kalyn Goodwin

• joyfulness or exaltation of spirit, as from
  success, pleasure, or relief high spirits
• The cat was elated to see the ribbons to play
  with.

http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/elation
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Umbrage
Micaela Perkins
umbrage
noun 1. offense annoyance displeasure to
feel umbrage at a social snub to give umbrage to
someone to take umbrage at someone's rudeness.
2. the slightest indication or vaguest feeling
of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like.
Sentence
She took umbrage at his remarks. He felt a
great sense of umbrage when the nurse started his
IV.
Source http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/umb
rage
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Sanguineous

• (san-gwen-ee-us)
• definition of, relating to, or involving
  bloodshed
• synonyms bloody, homicidal, murderous,
  bloodthirsty and sanguine.
• Sourcesmerriam-webster.com and google
• Ex The shark was sanguineous when he saw the
  fish swim in front of his face.
• Cailtin Ramsey

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Impetuous

• Adj. of, pertaining to, or characterized by
  sudden or rash action, emotion, etc. impulsive
  an impetuous decision an impetuous person.
• His rush was so impetuous, that he fairly
  overturned several of his opponents by dashing
  against them.
• Dictionary.com
• By Kali Hiser

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Macabre
The Dance of Death by Michael Wolgemut

• muh-kah-bruh, -kahb, -kah-ber
• adjective
• 1. Gruesome and horrifying ghastly horrible.
• 2. Of, pertaining to, dealing with, or
  representing death, especially its grimmer or
  uglier aspect.
• 3. Of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of
  death.
• Sentence One of America's most revered Broadway
  musicals, Sweeney Todd, is also a macabre tale of
  revenge..
• Sources http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/ma
  cabre
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileHolbein-death.pn
  g
• http//www.wordnik.com/words/macabre/examples?page
  3

Katie Spradlin
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Animosity

• Part of Speech Noun
• Pronunciation an-uh-mos-i-tee
• Definition A feeling of strong dislike, ill
  will, or enmity that tends to display itself in
  action.
• Example Avada Kedavra! Bellatrix shrieked in
  animosity, pointing her wand at Sirius.
• Sources Dictionary.com, news.bbc.co.uk

• 
  Kevin Penn

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-Idiomatic-id-ee-uh-mat-ik
Cheyenne Milan

• examples Its raining cats and dogs.
• Shes not the sharpest crayon in the box.
• He used a idiomatic expression as he told her to
  break a leg as she took center stage.

• adjective
• 1. peculiar to or characteristic of a particular
  language or dialect.
• 2. containing or using many idioms.
• 3. having a distinct style or character,
  especially in the arts idiomatic writing an
  idiomatic composer.

Dictionary.com
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Lugubrious
loo-goo-bree-uhs s
Adjective -Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially
 in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner

• The girl lugubrious after the boy broke up with
  her.

Synonyms sorrowful, melancholy
www.dictionary.com Katie Harrison
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Facetious
Leah Caudel

• facetious
• Pronouncedfuh-see-shuhs
• adjective
• 1. not meant to be taken seriously or literally
  a facetious remark.
• 2. amusing humorous
• 3. lacking serious intent concerned with
  something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous a
  facetious person.

I was being very facetious when I told you your
mohawk was really hot.
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Nefarious
Calvin A. Penn

• ni-fair-ee-uh s

• Adjective
• Definition Extremely wicked or
  villainous iniquitous vile atrocious.
• Example
  Mr. Todd and Ms. Lovetts nefarious
  plot included the murdering of his customers
  and her baking them into pies.
• Sources
  www.dictionary.com

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-AdjectiveDefinition Lacking in qualities that
interest, stimulate, or challenge DULL, FLAT,
VAPID
Insipid

• Sentence Her painting was very insipid.

http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/insipid
By Ann Kauffman
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Condescending

• Adjective
• Definition showing or characterized by a
  patronizing or superior attitude toward others
• - Synonyms snobbish, patronizing, to talk down
  to
• Patronize displaying or indicative of an
  offensively condescending manner.
• They were very condescending toward you.
• Definition www.dictionary.com and
  www.merriam-webster.com
• Image http//goinglikesixty.com/wp-content/upload
  s/2010/07/condescending.jpg

By Sammi Jo Johnson
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Bombastic
bom-bas-tik
Adjective (of speech, writing, etc.)
High-sounding high-flown inflated pretentious
Sample sentence The guest speaker dominated
conversations with his bombastic tone and
overbearing demeanor.
Synonyms Pompous, grandiloquent, turgid, florid,
grandiose
Gavin West
Source Dictionary.reference.com
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Despondent

• Part of Speech Adjective
• Definition feeling or showing extreme
  discouragement, dejection, or depression
• The woman was despondent over the death of her
  husband.
• Sources www.webster.com,www.vision.org
  Sydney Wininger

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Forlorn
Pronounced fawr-lawrn Adjective
Definition 1. desolate or dreary unhappy or
miserable, as in feeling, condition, or
appearance. 2. lonely and sad forsaken. 3.
expressive of hopelessness despairing Sentence
She looked so forlorn, so empty like the hope had
been sucked out of her.
www.dictionary.com
By Katie Davis
http//sentence.yourdictionary.com/forlorn
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Trepidation By Jenna Hays

• Noun trep-i-dey-shuh n
• Tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation
  perturbation.
• Sources thenervousbreakdown.com
  www.dictionary.com
• The horses open mouth inside the car filled the
  child with trepidation.

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• er-yoo-dahyt, er-oo-
• adjective
• characterized by great knowledge learned or schol
  arly an erudite professor an erudite commentary.

Mr. Spock gave an erudite lecture on the latest
discoveries in astrophysics.
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.
Wesley Holloway
http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/erudite
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Acerbic

• Sour or astringent in taste harsh or severe, as
  in temper or expression.
• Astringent Puckering sensation of the mouth.
• /?'s?rbik/
• Adjective
• The girl remarked how acerbic the War Head
  tasted.
• Dictionary.com

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Haughty

• Adj
• Scornfully and condescendingly proud.
• 1. having or showing arrogance
• 2. Archaic noble or exalted
• The haughty ways she displayed her work turned
  off her peers freedictionary.com

Maeghann Alexander
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Mirth

• adj- Happiness or enjoyment, especially
  accompanied by laughter
• Ex His intention was to provide a much needed
  dose of jollity and mirth but his jokes were so
  bad they simply bored everyone to tears.
• http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/mirth
• Lauren Milam

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Patronizing
Perri Collier

• adjective
• displaying or indicative of an offensively
  condescending manner
• The professor spoke in a very patronizing way to
  his students.
• Sources
• http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/patronizing
  
• http//www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonis
  ts/mba/lowres/mban250l.jpg

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Farcical
ByCassieGlass

• Definition resembling farce ludicrous absurd
  ridiculous.
• Adjective
• The playwright's farcical comedy had the audience
  laughing hysterically.
• http//dictionary.reference.com
• http//wiki.answers.com

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Ecstasy
Jewelia Lindsey

• Ecstasy a state of being
• carried away by
• overwhelming
• emotion

They believed that through the cultivation of
mystical ecstasy they could attain direct
communion with God.
Wikipedia.com
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Candidkan-did
Mariah Perkins

• - Adjective
• Definition-
• 1. frank outspoken open and sincere
• 2. free from reservation, disguise, or
  subterfuge straightforward
• 3.honest impartial
• She was very candid about her childhood.

http//www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/oprah-winfre
y/ http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/candid
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Didacticdahy-dak-tik

• adjective 1. intended for instruction
  instructive didactic poetry.
• 2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much
  a boring, didactic speaker.
• 3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
  
• The teacher gave a didactic lecture on the
  importance of sanitary conditions in bathrooms.
• http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/didactic
• Maggie Vaughn

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Indifferent
Josh Butler

• in-dif-er-uh nt
• Adjective
• Without interest or concern not caring
  apathetic
• Society is indifferent toward littering.
• http//dictionary.reference.com/
• http//www.opala.org/

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Ardor

• - Applied to a very strong feeling about a person
  or thing. Passion is an intense emotion
  compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for
  something.
• The term is also often applied to a lively or
  eager interest in or admiration for a proposal,
  cause, or activity or love - to a feeling of
  unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling
  emotion, a positive affinity or love, towards a
  subject, idea, person, or object.
• The man who headed up the organization was full
  of ardor to speak at the benefit.

Source The burning piano from the Keith Emerson
CD shoot in Borrego Springs March 2008.
Eric Skipworth
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Vitriolic

• Adjective
• -Abusive nature or expression
• -Bitterly scathing caustic -Vitriolic
  criticism.
• I try not to take it personally, but sometimes
  his comments can be very vitriolic.
• http//www.wordnik.com/words/Vitriolic/defintion/
• Abby Rutledge