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Impel
  • I am impelled to do my home work so I can get
    good grades and get into a good collage.

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Impel
  • Verb to force, drive forward.
  • Im PEL
  • Synonyms urge, push, spur, propel, incite
  • Antonyms discourage, check, restrain, curb

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Heterogeneous
  • Most college admissions officers actively seek a
    student body that is both talented and
    heterogeneous.

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het e ro GE ne ous
  • Adjective
  • composed of different kinds, diverse
  • synonyms miscellaneous, mixed, variegated
  • antonyms uniform, homogeneous, a piece of

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Feign
  • Many people who like to feign to be other people
    like to be in plays.

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Feign
  • Verb
  • To pretend
  • Sym Imitate, act, unrevealing.
  • Ant serious, reveling.

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Works Cited
  • Masks Googleimiageslthttp//studentorgs.vanderbil
    t.edu/vob/theatre20mask.gifgt

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Cubicle
  • There are people everywhere who work in cubicles.

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Cubicle
  • (n.) a small room

CU-bi-cle
Syn. enclosure, hole-in-the-wall Ant. vast
hall, auditorium
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Inscribe
  • Ancient Egyptians used to inscribe words on stone
    tablets.

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Inscribe
  • (v.) to write or engrave to enter a name on a
    list
  • Synonyms - imprint, enroll, enlist
  • Antonyms erase, rub out, delete, efface,
    obliterate.
  • in SCRIBE

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Envoy
  • John Adams was the envoy to both England and
    France during and after the Revolutionary War.

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Envoyän voi
  • n.) a representative of messenger of a government

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Works Cited
  • Meghannmarco.com. meghanmarco.com. 3 Feb 2009
    lthttp//meghannmarco.com/news.php?default.0.340gt.

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Scuttle
The Mythbusters cut holes in the toy boat for a
science experiment for a future episode.
  • Jeffrey Taylor

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Part of SpeechNOUN/VERB
Definition
(v.) to sink a ship by cutting holes into it to
get rid of something in a decisive way to run
hastily, scurry (n.) a pail
  • Synonyms
  • Abandon, discard, scrap, ditch, dump

Antonyms Keep afloat, salvage, rescue, preserve
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Expedient
  • It is expedient for the white water rafters to
    wear life jackets.

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Expedient
  • (N) A means to an end
  • (ADJ) Advantageous
  • Ex PED ient

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CUBICLE
  • In the movie Office Space, Milton worked at an
    office in a cubicle.

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Kyü b? k?l
  • Noun
  • A small room or compartment
  • Synonyms enclosure, hole-in-the-wall
  • Antonyms vast hall, auditorium

Mitchell Trepaney Period 1
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Candid
To be honest, you have anger issues!
  • It is safe to be candid about our faults with
    friends and loved ones.

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Candid
  • (adj.) frank, sincere impartial unposed
  • Synonyms forthright, plainspoken,
    unbiased
  • Antonyms insincere, evasive, misleading,
    artful

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Horde
  • A horde of people were waiting outside a really
    boring resort, although, they did not know it was
    boring at the time.

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Horde
  • Noun
  • A vast number (as of people) a throng.
  • Nathan Landolt
  • Period 2
  • 2-5-09

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Candid It is safe to be candid about our
faults with friends and loved ones.
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Adjective
  • Candid
  • frank, sincere people impartial people
    unbiased people
  • lthttp//www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/images/tr
    ustworthypeople.gifgt

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Expedient
  • It is more expedient to use a computer than to
    write a report then writing the report by hand.

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  • (n.)- a means to and end
  • (adj.)- advantageous, useful
  • ex PE di ent

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Escalate
  • The tiny fist fight escalated into a knife fight.
  • Animals Fighting

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Escalate
  • (V) To elevate to increase intensity

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Most college admission officers actively seek a
student body that is both talented and
heterogeneous
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Heterogeneous
  • (Adj) Composed of different kinds, Diverse

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Impel
  • The potato famine impelled the Irish to move from
    their home in search of food.

Works Cited "Irish immigration to Puerto
Rico." Wikipedia. 29 Nov. 2008. 4 Feb. 2009.
lthttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_immigration_to
_Puerto_Ricogt.
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Impel
  • (im-pel)
  • (v.)
  • To force, drive forward
  • Syn urge, push, spur, propel, incite
  • Ant discourage, check, restrain, curb

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Flair
  • A opera singer needs flair for the dramatic as
    well as a good voice.

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Flair
  • (n.) to pretend
  • SYN. aptitude, bent, knack, gift, style, panache
  • ANT. Inability, incapacity

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Monologue
  • By means of a monologue, a playwright shares a
    characters private thoughts with the audience.

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Monologue
  • (N) a speech by one actor a long talk by one
    person
  • Synonym
  • Soliloquy
  • Recitation
  • Antonym
  • Dialogue
  • Conversation

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The people escalated up the escalators.
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Escalate-to elevate to increase in intensity
  • Verb
  • -to elevate to increase in intensity
  • ES-ca-late
  • Syn?Climb, rise, ascend, mount
  • Ant.?decrease, lessen, descend, defuse

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Repugnant
  • The repugnant sound of rats scraping in the walls
    made Becky leave the house.

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Repugnant
  • (adj.) offensive, disagreeable, distasteful
  • re PUG nant
  • Part of Speech- Adjective
  • Synonyms hateful, odious, revolting, repulsive
  • Antonyms pleasing, attractive, temping, wholesome

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Drudgeryby Justin Brown
  • Lifting the sack of beans was very drudgery for
    the small man.

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Drudgery
  • (n)
  • Work that is hard and tiresome.

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Prognosis
  • Doctors are particularly happy to deliver a
    prognosis of a speedy recovery.

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Prognosis
  • Noun
  • A forecast of the probable course and outcome of
    a disease or situation.
  • prog NO sis

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Inscribe
  • The young man asked the jeweler to inscribe the
    locket with his fiancée's name.

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Inscribe
  • Verb
  • To write or engrave to enter a name on a list
  • Syn imprint, enroll, enlist
  • Ant erase, rub out, delete, efface, obliterate
  • Work cited
  • Inscribe Google.com 2/3/09
  • lthttp//www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartooni
    sts/dpa/lowres/dpan186l.jpggt

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Stephen Colberts monologue at the beginning of
every show sets the tone for the rest of the
show, and warms up the audience.
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Monologue
(n.) a speech by one actor a long talk by one
person
Synonyms soliloquy, recitation Antonyms
dialogue, conversation, colloquy
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