tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19642078952532510592024-03-08T01:41:34.878-08:00Joseph's BlogJosephkim3http://www.blogger.com/profile/06065389320758180610noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964207895253251059.post-59424740664806567832008-05-17T16:21:00.000-07:002008-05-31T12:43:09.950-07:00Sat Vocabulary5 New word per day<br />Copy and Paste definitions and roots<br />Use each word in a sentence<br />- Bonus: If you use multiple vocab words in a sentence, make the sentence relate, or make the sentence relate to your life.<br />Find things that excite you. Try to enjoy it.<br /><br />1. Accolade - any award, honor, or laudatory notice<br />Forrest Gump recieved an accolade for his bravery in Vietnam.<br /><br />2. Ambulatory - of, pertaining to, or capable of walking<br />Forrest was ambulatory with the help of leg braces when he was young.<br /><br />3. Ameliorate - to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate.<br />The pain was ameliorated when the patient took a pain killer.<br /><br />4. Amity - friendship; peaceful harmony.<br />The amity between South Korea and America is crucial to the security of both countries.<br /><br />5. Burgeon - to grow or develop quickly; flourish: <br />The United States has burgeoned into a world super power.<br /><br />6. Capitulate - to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms<br />The student capitulated to the teacher after arguing about a question on a test.<br /><br />7. Coalesce - to grow together or into one body.<br />The two adjacent trees coalesced into an enormous one.<br /><br />8. Cohere - to stick together; be united; hold fast, as parts of the same mass<br />The water droplets cohered as they came closer together<br /><br />9. Confide - to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems <br />I confide to my friends and family.<br /><br />10. Congeal - to change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing<br />The starch congealed as pressure was put upon it.<br /><br />11. Copious - large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful<br />My friend owns a copious card collection.<br /><br />12. Corroborate - to make more certain; confirm<br />My friend corroborated that he understood me by nodding his head.<br /><br />13. Corrugated - to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.<br />My skin corrugated when my friend gave me an indian burn.<br /><br />14. Cursory - going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial <br />My friend got a C on a novel test because he read the book cursorily<br /><br />15. Debilitate - to make weak or feeble; enfeeble<br />My friend became debilitated after running for an hour.<br /><br />16. Distend - to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic<br />The rubber band broke when it was distended too much.<br /><br />17. Efface - to wipe out; do away with; expunge<br />My friend could not efface his bad memories when he was little.<br /><br />18. Evanescent - vanishing; fading away; fleeting. <br />The feeling of pride of winning is evanescent after a loss.<br /><br />19. Expedite - to speed up the progress of; hasten<br />Henry Ford expedited the production of cars by making an assembly line.<br /><br />20. Fallow - (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated. <br />Farmers leaving Oklahoma during the Great Depression left the land fallowed.<br /><br />21. Irascible - easily provoked to anger; very irritable<br />My parents are very irascible when they are unhappy.<br /><br />22. Jettison - to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency. <br />The pilot gave an order to jettison the fuel to lighten the plane during an emergency landing.<br /><br />23. Leniency - agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent.<br />I am very lenient to children with mental or physical disabilities.<br /><br />23. Listless - having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent<br />My friend is listless everytime he gets a bad grade on a test.<br /><br />24. Maladroit - unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless<br />President Bush was maladroit when he decided to declare war on Iraq.<br /><br />25. Mitigate - to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. <br />The penalty of death was mitigated to life in prison.<br /><br />26. Profusely - spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant<br />Girls spend profusely when they go shopping<br /><br />27. Reprehensible - deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.<br />President Bush is reprehensible for his irresponsible action of going to war.<br /><br />28. Litigious - inclined to dispute or disagree; argumentative.<br />Whenever I give an argument to my parents, they become litigious.<br /><br />29. Palliate - to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate<br />The Advil pill temporary relieved the patient of pain.<br /><br />30. Nefarious - extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous<br />Saddam was a nefarious man who killed hundreds of thousands of people.Josephkim3http://www.blogger.com/profile/06065389320758180610noreply@blogger.com0