Vocabulary

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Vocabulary

• Unit 10

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Acquiesce

• You must acquiesce to your parents in order to
  get the car on Friday night.

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Allure

• The alluring smells from the kitchen made me
  hungry.

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Askew

• When my mom looked at me askew, I knew I had done
  something wrong.

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Blithe

• Students show blithe happiness on the last day of
  school.

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Contentious

• Contentious people are not content with anything.

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Covet

• It is immoral to covet another persons husband
  or wife.

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Crestfallen

• Al Gore was utterly crestfallen when he found out
  that he had lost the presidency.

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Disheveled

• Disheveled desks should be cleaned off with a
  shovel.

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Exponent

• Paul McCartney is a strong exponent of
  vegetarianism.

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Garrulous

• It is annoying to sit next to a garrulous person
  on a plane.

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Insuperable

• For most, climbing Mt. Everest is an insuperable
  feat.

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Lamentable

• Last semester was a lamentable one.

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Misnomer

• The title of the story Happy Ending is a
  misnomer.

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Profess

• They professed their undying love for each other.

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Respite

• Spring break will be a nice respite in the middle
  of the semester.

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Retribution

• You will wash the car every week this summer in
  retribution for throwing eggs at it.

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Sinuous

• Lake Shore Drive is a sinuous road along the
  lakefront in Chicago.

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Sonorous

• The sonorous music was intoxicating.

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Vanguard

• Quentin Terantino was considered a vanguard with
  his movie Reservoir Dogs.

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Wastrel

• Wastrels are very wasteful.