Words Worth Learning
Set 10: April 25 to 29, 2016
Things will be slightly different this time. Instead of having you come up with 2 sentences, I’d like you to find two sentences where the word is used correctly and well and copy them to your slide. Then add a third sentence of your own. Other parts are on the template.
Uncouth
Definition & PoS: (of a person) lacking good manners, refinement, or grace�Sentence 1 (not yours): “They liked him because he was vigorous, brusque, uncouth, relentless, straightforward and open.”
Sentence 2 (not yours): “I will not tolerate any uncouth behavior, such as eating with one's mouth open.”
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): The viking’s behavior was uncouth. He shoved food mercilessly into his mouth and pulverised it.
Way to remember it: Think of “couth” as well-mannered. So uncouth is not well mannered.
Ehtan
Earnest
Definition & PoS:�
Sentence 1 (not yours):
Sentence 2 (not yours):
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy):
Way to remember it:
Chris
Definition & PoS: characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.�Sentence 1 (not yours):"he had long held a morbid fascination with the horrors of contemporary warfare"
Sentence 2 (not yours):"the treatment of morbid obesity"
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): The morbidly obese man sat down and ate 4 and ½ burritos for snack
Way to remember it: remember that morbid and abnormal have 4 letters in common and the number of syllables(2) is half of the the letters in common(4)
Gavin Evjenth
Morbid
�Sentence: Gabriel will indoctrinate you to our ways, teach you to feed properly.
Sentence: It indoctrinated the church with all its mysticism, its mystic exercises and even its magical cultus as taught by Iamblichus
Sentence: If I indoctrinate him in our ways, He will not grow up to be good, but to be evil like us
Way to remember it: A medical student has to go through alot of school, and is taught in the ways of a DOCTOR. InDOCTrinate
DOMINICK RICHIUSO
Indoctrinate
To indoctrinate is to teach especially the ideas, opinions, or beliefs of a certain group. Sometimes considered brainwashing.
Feral
Definition & PoS:�Wild, Savage adj
Sentence 1: That beast looks so feral that I would fear being alone with it.
Sentence 2:She barely recognized the feral look on his face, and despair slid through her
Sentence 3: The feral jaguar prepared to strike, it was a truly wild animal.
Way to remember it:
Feral, Federal -if you act like a feral animal and commit a federal crime
Miranda Rojas
FERAL CATS
Endeavor
Definition & PoS: Noun. An attempt to achieve a goal.
Sentence 1 (not yours): He made an endeavor to finish all his homework on time.
Sentence 2 (not yours): I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): I make endeavors every day; I am always trying to complete goals.
Way to remember it: The end of a goal is a completed endeavor.
Braedon Nickerson
clairvoyant
Definition & PoS: noun A person who claims to have supernatural ability to see the future
Sentence 1 (not yours):After being struck by lightning, Bill claimed to have clairvoyant gifts that allowed him to read the minds of others.
Sentence 2 (not yours):Because Jacob always seemed to make the best financial investments, everyone joked about his clairvoyant mindset.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): the forchanteller was corvalent and told me my future, latter it came true
Way to remember it:claire is Connor sister and she is is future.
will
Mercenary
Definition & PoS: Mercenary Adjective, Noun�Primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics
Sentence 1 (not yours): She’s nothing but a mercenary little gold digger.
Sentence 2 (not yours): As long as you pay the mercenary, he will do anything you asked him to.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy):The lady said she loved her husband but everybody knew she was a mercenary and she was doing it for the money.
Way to remember it: another meaning for mercenary is a soldier hired to a foreighn army, and military and mercenary sound the same.
Yassin Kedir
Reminisce
Definition & PoS: indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events
Sentence 1: “They reminisced about their summer vacations abroad.”�Sentence 2: “We reminisced Freddy’s first Christmas with us.”�Sentence 3: Some people reminisce when they look at old photo albums.
Way to remember it: Remember starts with ‘rem’ and Reminisce also starts with ‘rem.’
Reina
Omnipresent
Definition & PoS: (of God) present everywhere at the same time Adj.
Sentence 1 (not yours): Some station themselves on this side if the pond, some on that, for the poor bird cannot be omnipresent; if he dive here he must come ip there.
Sentence 2 (not yours): He is omnipresent: in the heavens, in the air and in the waters.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): I am omnipresent, I am everywhere, in your food, in your house, in your school, there is no running from me.
Way to remember it: Present means that you are at a place, and omni means all; of all things so you are present in all things, so you are everywhere; omnipresent.
Micah W.
Ambidextrous
Definition & PoS: (of a person) able to use the right and left hands equally well.(Adjective)
Sentence 1 (not yours):He was ambidextrous because he could use his left hand as well as his right hand.
Sentence 2 (not yours): She could only sign the document with her right hand because she was not ambidextrous.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): Since my dominant hand was broken, I had to sign my check with my left hand while wishing I was ambidextrous.
Way to remember it: In latin, [ambi] means both, [dexter] means right handed; on most people, the right handed is capable, so ambidextrous means equally capable with both hands
Nic
Impending
Definition & PoS: adjective; about to happen�Sentence 1 (not yours): He now understood the whole meaning and
importance of this war and of the impending battle.
Sentence 2 (not yours): "You’ll need your family when I’m gone," she said, thoughts drifting to her impending death.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): After Mr. Heumann bought 18,00 bags of swedish fish, he dreaded the impending credit card bill, know it would come soon
Way to remember it:
Molly
Tenuous
Definition: (adj.) Very weak or slight, flimsy
Sentence 1: “The tenuous link between interest rates and investment"
Sentence 2: “The local theater has had a tenuous existence in recent years.”
Sentence 3: After the accident my Uncle Bob’s health was tenuous, he was a always in and out of the hospital.
Way to remember it: Tenuous starts with the word ten, and the word ten is used in the US, which has a fragile and weak economy. Ten, US
Graham E.
Capitulate
Definition & PoS: cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender. Verb
Sentence 1 (not yours):Greatly outnumbered, the soldiers had no alternative but to capitulate to their enemies
Sentence 2 (not yours):I never thought my brother would capitulate and allow me to drive his car for a week.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): if He doesn’t capitulate and turn himself in to authorities, he will spend the rest of his life running.
Way to remember it: Remember a white flag
Joslyn
Allegiant
Definition & PoS:�Noun, faithful follower.
Sentence 1 (not yours):
If it is refuge you seek, you will only be granted it by swearing allegiance to us.
Sentence 2 (not yours):
The United States is a republic, as even the Pledge of Allegiance says so.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy):
I swore allegiance to my friends, and I will be a faithful follower by not telling you our secrets.
Way to remember it:
Divergent series
Drew
Crescendo
Definition & PoS: Verb;to increase in loudness or intensity.
Sentence 1 (not yours): "the reluctant cheers began to crescendo"
Sentence 2 (not yours): “the baby’s cries crescendo”
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): “ the band began to crescendo the concert got louder and louder.”
Way to remember it: Cres-cen-do, cres sounds like crest, some families have crests, families usually grow.
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Omicron
Definition & PoS: The 15th letter in the greek alphabet. Noun�Sentence 1 (not yours): Of course, we spell it with an omicron, whereas Ionia in Asia Minor has an omega.
Sentence 2 (not yours): The Greeks themselves, however, did not call S2 omega (great o) nor did they call 0 omicron (little o), though these names are given even in modern Greek grammars.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): I’ve always had an obsession with the greek alphabet, and my favorite letter in it is by far omicron.
Way to remember it: It sounds like it could be a greek god, and it’s a greek letter.
Soren Dever
Illicit
Definition & PoS: Forbidden by law or rule, (Illegal, felonious) adjective
Sentence 1 (not yours): Illicit drug use - which includes the abuse of illegal drugs and/or the misuse of prescription medications or household substances - is something many adolescents engage in occasionally, and a few do regularly. (HHS.org)
Sentence 2 (not yours): There is no reason to credit the scandalous reports of an illicit attachment. (Sentenceyourdictionary.com)
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): In Section B-9, illicit activities (rules set by the committee) such as looking others in the eye, is illegal and punishable by death.
Way to remember it:Illicit, Illegal
Grace S.
Impertinent
Definition & PoS: Not pertinent to a particular matter; irrelevant (adjective)�Sentence 1 (not yours):Because the young man would only give an impertinent answer to his questions, the attorney decided not to take him on as a client.
Sentence 2 (not yours): As the site’s webmaster, it's her job to monitor the forum for impertinent comments.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy):Hashmood got called on during class and gave an impertinent answer, it didn’t relate to the situation.
Way to remember it: pertinent means relevant.
Manpreet
Pragmatic
Definition & PoS: Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations
Sentence 1 (not yours): There was no pragmatic solution to the problem.
Sentence 2 (not yours): My sister is always pragmatic.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): Because my mom is very pragmatic, she only buys her kids practical gifts.
Way to remember it: Pragmatic -> Practical
Synonyms: Practical, down-to-earth, sensible
Alyssa Hall
impinge
Definition: (verb) have an effect or impact, especially a negative one
Sentence 1: Nora was determined that the tragedy would impinge as little as possible on Constance's life.
Sentence 2: This is just another attempt to impinge upon freedom of speech and free expression.
Sentence 3: Having her as a friend is such an impinge on her behavior in school.
Way to remember it: impinge -> im
Marissa
Fraught
Definition & PoS: Causing or affected by great anxiety or stress; adj
Sentence 1 (not yours): Human relationships are fraught with difficulties and challenges.
Sentence 2 (not yours): The talk of war is fraught with difficult decisions about cost and manpower
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): Diabeto was fraught with the decision of choosing between oreos and double stuff oreos. It was causing him great stress.
Way to remember it: Fr-antic with stress/ anxiety
Connor Edelman
bolide
large meteor that explodes in atmosphere�
Sentence 1 (not yours):
Sentence 2 (not yours):
The bolide was really cool, i love it when mereos explode!
Way to remember it:
Justin
Platonic
Definition & PoS: adjective
(of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual.
Sentence 1 (not yours):No one would believe two people as attractive as Sarah and Jackson could be in a platonic relationship, so it kept the neighbors from gossiping.
Sentence 2 (not yours):The piquant comments of his platonic friend, Mademoiselle de Hautefort, upon Richelieu were relished by the king until he was informed of others said to have been made by her upon himself.
Sentence 3 (yours w/ built-in redundancy): They had a platonic relationship, so he was stuck on first base.
Way to remember it: Plate-onic. Stuck on first base, or plate.
Aidan P.
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Otiose
(OH-she-os)
Definition: (Adj) Being at leisure/at ease, idle
Sentence 1: “My husband’s an actor, but he’s been otiose ever since they found out he doesn’t have any talent.
Sentence 2: “How long is your no-good, otiose uncle going to tag along with us this time?”
Sentence 3: “stop being an otiose little pig and start working.”
Way to remember it: Otiose → obese → obese people are lazy and idle.
Yume
Arcane
Definition & PoS: Understood by few; Mysterious or secret: Adjective
Montana