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Improving Vocabulary Skills

Improving Vocabulary Skills. Unit 2 Chapter 11. blight. Something that damages. The rats in the street are a real blight on the neighborhood. The open sewers in the slum blight the area. Gloat . Expressing spiteful delight. Don’t gloat when you win. It isn’t nice.

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Improving Vocabulary Skills

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  1. Improving Vocabulary Skills Unit 2 Chapter 11

  2. blight Something that damages

  3. The rats in the street are a real blight on the neighborhood. The open sewers in the slum blight the area.

  4. Gloat Expressing spiteful delight

  5. Don’t gloat when you win. It isn’t nice. Little Tommy gloats when he wins in chess. Hopefully he’ll learn to be a gallant winner before he grows up.

  6. blatant Obvious in an offensive manner

  7. Tommy stole the opponent’s queen in his last chess match. Blatant cheating like that cost him the game.

  8. gaunt Bony; very skinny

  9. Michael Jordon was a gaunt basketball player, But he was still unbeatable even though he was really thin.

  10. immaculate Super clean

  11. My mother will only eat at immaculate restaurants. Very few restaurants are as clean as her kitchen, so we rarely eat out.

  12. qualm doubt

  13. President Bush had no qualms about using waterboarding to get information from captives. Most people have qualms about using any kind of torture to get information.

  14. plagiarism Stealing someone else’s ideas

  15. If you commit plagiarism, you could be expelled from school. Plagiarism is a serious offense, akin to stealing.

  16. contrive Plan cleverly; think up

  17. Fatou contrived a clever excuse as to why she didn’t complete her homework: the computer froze. The teacher soon contrived of a way to double check the excuses her students gave for being late: she checked the date of the document.

  18. garble Jumble; mix up

  19. The computer sent a garbled error message, which only made the problem more difficult to solve. Since she didn’t hold the microphone close to her mouth, what she said was just a garbled mess.

  20. retaliate Pay back; get revenge

  21. Their team beat us last time, so we hope to retaliate and win this time. When Mohamed hit Hannatou with a snowball, Hannatou retaliated by throwing a snowball back at him.

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