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Spring Vocabulary #3

Spring Vocabulary #3. April 9, 2012. Ascetic (uh set ik ). Definition. Sentence Use. The monk led an ascetic life, spending most of his time in prayer and eating only as much as necessary to stay alive.

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Vocabulary #3

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Spring Vocabulary #7

Spring Vocabulary #7. May 7/8, 2012. Hierarchy (hi uh rar key). Definition. Sentence Use. Some people believe that life is organized as a hierarchy , with plants at the bottom, animals in the middle, and human beings at the top.

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Spring Vocabulary #4

Spring Vocabulary #4. April 16, 2012. Feasible (fee zuh bul ). Definition. Sentence Use.

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Spring Vocabulary #2

Spring Vocabulary #2. April 2, 2012. Assuage (uh swayj ). Definition. Sentence Use. After the long and bitter fight for control of the company, the new CEO felt that it was important to assuage the angry feelings of all the parties involved.

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Spring Vocabulary #5

Spring Vocabulary #5. April 24, 2012. Aspire (uh spy ur ). Definition. Sentence Use. May people aspire to be successful novelists but few succeed. When he was a high school student, Bill Clinton aspired to be president. Seek to attain; long for. Part of Speech. Verb.

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Spring Vocabulary #6

Spring Vocabulary #6. May 1, 2012. Furtive (fir tiv ). Definition. Sentence Use. During the SAT test last week, I saw a student take a furtive glance at an electronic dictionary he had apparently snuck into the test center.

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Spring Vocabulary #8

Spring Vocabulary #8. May 15/16, 2012. Avarice ( av uh rihs ). Definition. Sentence Use. According to psychologists, many gamblers are motivated not by avarice but by a need for excitement.

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Vocabulary #4

Vocabulary #4. October 3. Disclose ( dih skloz ). Definition. Sentence Use. For tax purposes, the government requires that anyone earning an income disclose its source.

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