Words Worth Learning
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Definition: Insignificant or unimportant
Sentence 1: you are so paltry David
Sentence 2: This work is so paltry
Sentence 3: Hw work is so paltry
Synonyms: important,
Antonyms:
Part of speech:
Pronunciation:
Way to remember it:
Paltry
Montana
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Definition: Causing one to feel drained of energy or vitality
Sentence : “That math test was enervating. I feel so dead.”
Sentence : Losing my library book was enervating.
Sentence : The heat was enervating to him. He gulped a whole water bottle after we got back.
Synonyms: Exhaust, tire, fatigue
Antonyms: Aid, assist, help
Part of speech: Adjective
Pronunciation: En-er-vate-ing
Way to remember it: The beginning of enervating is ⅔ of the word energy, and enervating is the draining of energy.
Enervating
Ethan Hintz
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Definition: obscure, secret, known only by a few
Sentence 1:It's those arcane investments.
Sentence 2: Selling such arcane objects is always a challenge.
Sentence 3: The whole subject seems a bit too arcane for the common man.
Synonyms: Mystic, occult
Antonyms: Normal, Common
Part of speech: Adjective
Pronunciation: Ar-cane
Way to remember it: Its an ucommon word with an uncommon definition
Arcane
Joslyn Holliday
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Definition: Betrayal of a trust
Sentence 1: While holding this commission, he had the humiliation of witnessing the sack of Rome and the capture of Clement, without being able to rouse the perfidious duke of Urbino into activity.
Sentence 2: This offered a fair pretext to the Mamelukes to get rid of a man proved to be a perfidious tyrant.
Sentence 3: His ambition was boundless, however perfidious, were hated by him.
Synonyms: treacherous, duplicitous, deceitful, disloyal, faithless
Antonyms: faithful, trustworthy, loyal
Part of speech: Noun
Pronunciation: pərˈfidēəs
Way to remember it: It’s a big word, so don’t trust it, just like it’s meaning.
Perfidious
Arin Goetz
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Definition: Something that is unavoidable or definite
A war is inevitable if Donald Trump becomes president
When being chased by Darth Vader, death is inevitable
The little boy didn't want to admit it, but adulthood was inevitable
Synonyms: Unavoidable, inescapable
Antonyms: avoidable, doubtful
Part of speech: adjective
Pronunciation: In-ev-it-uh-bul
Way to remember it: ine-void-able. Void sounds like vit
Inevitable
Braedon Nickerson
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Definition: Having or showing keen Interest in or enthusiasm for something
Sentence 1: She was Avid for information about the murder inquiry
Sentence 2: Despite the fact that Jerome is an avid learner, he just can’t seem to grasp the concepts involved in playing the stock market.
Sentence 3: LuAnn is an avid fan of high school sports, and she wears the team colors to every game.
Synonyms: Keen, eager, enthusiastic
Antonyms: Apathetic, Uninterested, dispassionate
Parts of Speech: Adjective
Pronunciation: Av-id
Ways to remember:Think of your favorite stuff to do, stuff that excite you.
Avid
Yassin Kedir
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Definition: words used in a particular action
Sentence 1: the vocabulary of law
Sentence 2:he has a strong vocabulary
Sentence 3: vocabulary is my expertise
Synonyms: glossary
Antonyms: none
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: vo·cab·u·lar·y
Way to remember it: vocab= words
vocabulary
Will
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Dulce
Definition: a sweet food or drink, especially a candy or jam. ; sweet or mild
Sentence 1: “ I love to eat dulce.”
Sentence 2: “ This tastes very dulce.”
Sentence 3: “I once spotted dulce in a candy store.”
Synonyms: Candy; Jam ; Carmel
Antonyms: Bitter
Part of speech: noun and adjective
Pronunciation: ˈdəlsā
Way to remember it: Think of something you find sweet.
Kristin Mcgee
Definition: modest or shy because a lack of self-confidence
Sentence 1: He was very diffident going on to his first day of high school.
Sentence 2: In society today, most people are very diffident from being afraid of being judged.
Sentence 3: Behind his diffident personality, he was a very talented & outgoing person.
Synonyms: shy, bashful, unassertive
Antonyms: confident
Part of speech: adjective
Pronunciation: ˈ/difəd(ə)nt/
Way to remember it: Confident/Diffident
Diffident
Marissa Casas
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Definition: Nonsense
Sentence 1: The world blew up? This is bunk, I was just there.
Sentence 2: I don’t understand what you’re Saying, It’s Bunk
Sentence 3: Only an idiot would believe this bunk
Synonyms:Nonsense, rubbish, gibberish, absurdity
Antonyms: Truth
Part of speech: Noun
Pronunciation: Bunk
Way to remember it: Bunk also means a type of bed, and bunk beds werent created until the 1400’s. Befor that, they would be nonsense.
Bunk
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DOMINICK RICHIUSO
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Definition: move or swing back and forth at regular speed.
Sentence 1: a pendulum oscillates about its lowest point
Sentence 2: The fan can oscillate.
Sentence 3: To aide with his hypnosis, the hypnotists oscillated a pocket watch in front of his patient.
Synonyms: wobble, fluctuate
Antonyms: remain, steady
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: oss-ih-late
Way to remember it: absolutely none.
Oscillate
Aidan piceno
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Definition: Lacking sufficient water or rainfall
Sentence 1: Diabeto lived in the arid state of Iraq.
Sentence 2: He glanced at the arid camp
Sentence 3: I surveyed the arid landscape of Arizona
Synonyms: Barren, bone dry, desert
Antonyms: Fertile, productive, damp
Part of speech: Adjective
Pronunciation: Ar-id
Way to remember it: When you see arid think of Arizona, which is a place that lacks sufficient rainfall
Arid
Connor
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Definition: calmness, coolness
Sentence 1: The student was sang-froid before the test because he felt very confident.
Sentence 2: Instead of being sang-froid, he was freaking out and running everywhere
Sentence 3: Meditation can usually calm people down and make people sang-froid.
Synonyms: aplomb, self-assurance
Antonyms: agitation, discomposure
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: Sang-frwa
Way to remember it: it sounds very calming and cool and that is basically what it means
Sang-froid
Molly
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Definition: a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Sentence 1: I was at school and something aberrational happened.
Sentence 2: I was walking and some aberrational man approached me.
Sentence 3: I was eating at dinner and the lights aberrationally flickered.
Synonyms: oddity and peculiarity
Antonyms: Normality and soundness
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ab-uh-rey-shuh n]
Way to remember it: When something normal is going on and in the middle of that something weird happens you will have a word to describe it
aberration
By Gavin Evjenth
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Definition: Arrogantly superior and disdainful
Sentence 1: He glared me down with a haughty look of disdain.
Sentence 2: It was due to his haughty and violent temper that the truce with our countries were broken
Sentence 3: She was spat at and stepped on but she still held a Haughty demeanor.
Synonyms: vain, snotty, conceding.
Antonyms: humble modest unarrogant.
Part of speech: adjective
Pronunciation: ha-tea
Way to remember it: Ha-ty, ha as in laughing at something because it is so little and puny and not important would be being haighty.
Haughty
Micah Weinberger
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Definition: A person with a thin or frail body
Sentence 1: I glanced at the leptosome, their ribs protruding out from under their shirt.
Sentence 2: “I’m a leptosome,” the octogenarian commented, smiling at her old friend and glancing at her recently broken leg.
Sentence 3: I looked at the leptosome left by the crime scene. He was shaking, and malnourished, but would return to his normal strength in three weeks.
Synonyms: Scrawny, slender, skinny, gangly, lanky
Antonyms: Big, heavy-built, beefy, burly,
Part of speech: Noun
Pronunciation: Leh-p-toe-sum
Way to remember it: Some=someONE lep= related to storing fat in cells
Leptosome
Grace S.
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Definition: An overabundance, excess (Noun)
Sentence 1: “Her extreme thoroughness became a nimiety.”
Sentence 2: “Shopping in the mall will end up in a nimiety of stuff.”
Sentence 3: “Owning a nimiety of things tend to cause clutter.”
Synonyms: Overkill, enough, plenty
Antonyms: Lack, need, deprived
Pronunciation: ni-MAHY-i-tee
Way to remember it: it has a nimiety of vowels. it has 4 in a 7-lettered word.
Nimiety
Yume
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Definition: A homesickness for a home you can’t return to, or that never was
Sentence 1: Are you feeling hiraeth?
Sentence 2: As soon as I step over the border into Wales my hiraeth evaporates. I am home.
Sentence 3: My hiraeth started when I realized I wasn’t in Kansas anymore. Synonyms: Homesickness
Antonyms: Saudade (Portuguese word meaning: a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves.)
Part of speech: Noun
Pronunciation: HEAR-eth
Way to remember it: Hear meth;Hear eth ⇒ hiraeth
Hiraeth
Nic Randazzo
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Definition: to be confused or stumped
Sentence 1: He stared at the test bewildered. He was wishing he had studied last night.
Sentence 2: Jason was bewildered by the strange noises coming from his neighbor’s house.
Sentence 3: Marge and Jake were bewildered by their teenage son’s word choices.
Synonyms: confusion, disorientation
Antonyms: expectation
Part of speech: Adjective
Pronunciation: be-wil-der-ment
Way to remember it When you are confused it makes your brain go wild. So you are be-wild-erment
Bewilderment
Chris
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Definition: eager to fight(pugnacious)
Sentence 1: He Had a bellicose attitude to the teacher
Sentence 2: ISIS had some bellicose threats to the US
Sentence 3: I am very bellicose after I lose soccer games
Synonyms:pugnacious and aggressive
Antonyms:Peaceable
Part of speech:adjective
Pronunciation:ˈ/beləˌkōs/
Way to remember it:
Bellicose
MANPREET
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Definition: Become less intense or widespread
Sentence 1: The howling winds abated.
Sentence 2: Nothing could abate his intensity.
Sentence 3: Their soaring stocks abated.
Synonyms: Subside, lessen, weaken
Antonyms: intensify, strengthen,
Part of speech: Verb
Pronunciation: uh-bait
Way to remember it: Bait gets caught and used to fish, so it must be weak.
Abate
Graham Edelman
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Definition: resentment, offence, to find insulting
Sentence 1: He called me a coward, and I took umbrage at the insult
Sentence 2: I take umbrage to insults
Sentence 3: The coach gave umbrage to his team for not winning a single game.
Synonyms: offence, insult, grudge
Antonyms: comfort, cheer, delight
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: uhm-brij
Way to remember it: In Harry Potter Dolores Umbridge (sound like umbrage) is evil, and she constantly is making Professor Trelawney take umbrage because of all the hints at insults that she makes.
Umbrage
Miranda Rojas
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Definition: a difficult problem
Sentence 1: The 3000 piece problem proved to be a conundrum.
Synonyms: problem, difficulty,
Antonyms: ease, rudimentary, simple
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: con-un-drum
Way to remember it: a drum is loud and tends to cause ‘problems’, if played incorrectly
Conundrum
Reina
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Sentence 3: The fatuous dog chased his tail not knowing it was pointless and he would never catch it.
Synonyms: Foolish, stupid, insane
Antonyms: Sensible
Part of speech: Adjective
Pronunciation: Fat- chu- us
Definition: Silly and pointless
Sentence 1: Ignoring the danger warning, the fatuous camper set up by the cliff.
Sentence 2: Purposely sitting on a tack is a fatuous mistake because it will hurt.
Fatuous
Alyssa Hall
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