Improving Vocabulary Skills

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Improving Vocabulary Skills Third
Edition (Chapter 11) PowerPoint Flashcards
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Word blatant
Definition very obvious, often offensively so
Part of Speech adjective
Derivative blatantly
Link Ray meant
Sentence Ray meant to show a blatant disregard
for the No Smoking sign as he puffed on his
cigar.
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Word blight
Definition something that weakens , damages, or
destroys
Part of Speech noun
Derivative blights
Link fright
Sentence These plants are a fright because of
blight which is ruining them.
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Word contrive
Definition to plan cleverly think up
Part of Speech verb
Derivatives contrives, contrived, contriving
Link arrive
Sentence He will contrive to pay all of his
debts by the time this date arrives. He plans to
keep track of everything he buys.
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Word garble
Definition to mix up or confuse (as a story or
a message) scramble
Part of Speech verb
Derivatives garbles, garbled, garbling
Link marble
Sentence I am afraid that I will garble the
message about the marble because my brain is
scrambled after ten hours on the computer.
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Word gaunt
Definition thin and bony
Part of Speech adjective
Derivative gauntly, gauntness
Link Skinny Haunt
Sentence He was so gaunt that people started to
call him Skinny Haunt.
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Word gloat
Definition to feel or express delight or
self-satisfaction, often spitefully
Part of Speech verb
Derivatives gloats, gloated, gloating
Link boat
Sentence The rich man will gloat when he claims
that his boat is the biggest afloat.
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Word immaculate
Definition perfectly clean
Part of Speech adjective
Derivatives immaculately, immaculateness
Link isnt it?
Sentence It is difficult when one person is
immaculate but not their roommate, isnt it?
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Word plagiarism
Definition using someone elses writings or
ideas as ones own
Part of Speech noun
Derivatives plagiarize, plagiarized,
plagiarizing, plagiarisms
Link Communism
Sentence His report on Communism contained three
examples of plagiarism.
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Word qualm
Definition an uneasy feeling about how right or
proper a particular action is
Part of Speech noun
Derivative qualms
Link calm
Sentence When my brother announced he was
getting a pool for under 10, I had qualms.
Apparently, my uneasy calm was justified.
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Word retaliate
Definition to return an injury for an injury
pay back
Part of Speech verb
Derivatives retaliates, retaliated, retaliating
Link belly ache
Sentence I had to retaliate for the time he gave
me a belly ache.