Vocabulary

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Vocabulary Week One

• Here are the first ten words for your notebook.

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Write the word and its definition in your
notebook...

• Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds
  in a line of verse.
• Allusion Making an indirect reference to
  something well-known such as a song, poem, a
  famous book or landmark, a work of art
• Benevolent showing sympathy, understanding or
  generosity.
• Benign kindness of disposition or manner
• Connotation an idea this is suggested or
  implied.

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• Culture all the knowledge and values shared by
• a society
• Definitely Without question and beyond doubt
• Democracy a government favored by the people or
  by their elected representatives.
• Denotation the most direct or specific meaning
  of a word or expression
• Discrimination unfair treatment of a person or
  group on the basis of prejudice.

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Vocabulary Week Two

• Here are the first ten words for your notebook.

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• Considerate -showing concern for the rights and
  feelings of others
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEEven top chefs, wise to the PR
  value, no longer mind too much as long as
  you're considerate to fellow diners.
• empathyunderstanding and entering into another's
  feelings
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEFurther research in this area
  suggests that if one person does not like
  another, for whatever reason, then feelings
  of empathy are less likely.
• Confer- to present
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEThe six umpires conferred before
  allowing the translator to come out while Darvish
  kept stretching and then threw a couple of
  pitches.
• emancipatefree from slavery or servitude
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEThe other exodus involved black
  Africans brought to America as slaves
  and emancipated only 
• Coincide- happen simultaneously
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEStar appearances
  will coincide with musical performances and
  updates on research programs.

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• Advocate - a person who pleads for a cause or
  propounds an idea
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEBut the Humane Society and other
  animal advocates maintain that housing sows in
  gestation crates is cruel.
• Proactive - of a policy or person or action)
  controlling a situation by causing something to
  happen rather than waiting to respond to it after
  it happens
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEThrough perseverance, some
  amazing forward thinking Marine leaders, and a
  little bit of luck, I ultimately created a
  thriving proactive counseling program.
• Altruistic - showing unselfish concern for the
  welfare of others
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEIt was taken there by
  an altruistic 47-year-old public servant who said
  he had been given the money as a bribe.
• Affect - have an effect upon
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEThe researchers found that
  antidepressants also may affect driving
  negatively.
• Effect - a phenomenon that follows and is caused
  by some previous phenomenon
• EXAMPLE SENTENCEIn effect, he said, the
  companies are circumventing the regulatory
  process.