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Vocabulary Week 25 Gold

Vocabulary Week 25 Gold. Word 1: Grueling Def : Difficult and demanding continuous effort Sent: Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. Janet Jackson.

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Vocabulary Week 25 Gold

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  1. Vocabulary Week 25 Gold

  2. Word 1: Grueling Def: Difficult and demanding continuous effort Sent: Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night.Janet Jackson

  3. Word 2: IncentiveDef: Something that makes you work harderSent: Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. Nikita Khrushchev

  4. Word 3: InterveneDef: Become involved in a situation in order to try to stop it or to come betweenSent: Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.Lawrence Durrell

  5. Word 4: ConciliatoryDef:To do something that helps end an argument or makes someone less madSent: Both sides are going to have to have a conciliatory frame of mind and a willingness to meet half way; you cannot dig your feet in.Eddie Quinn

  6. Word 5: DapperDef: Sharply dressed and stylishSent: This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah.GeenaDavis

  7. Word 6: CoerceDef: Persuade an unwilling person to do something by using force or threats.Sent: But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.Mahatma Gandhi

  8. Word 7: GluttonDef:Habit of eating or drinking to excessSent: Thanksgiving is Americas national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.Michael Dresser

  9. The game was invented in Germany The koala bear is not a bear Word 8: MisnomerDef: A use of a wrong or inappropriate nameSent: To call that an investigation is a misnomer. It was an interview. That's all it was.Tom Sneddon

  10. Word 9: AcrimoniousDef: Angry and bitter language or feelingSent: He feels that it is important for the parties to move away from the contentious, acrimonious issues and explore areas where they can send positive signals to the other side.Rauf Hakeem

  11. Word 10: AccentuateDef: To make something more noticeableSent: Delete the negative; Accentuatethe positive! Donna Karan

  12. Word 11: Inchoate Def: Just beginning and not yet formed Sent: Beginning where something is starting to form but not formed yet Sent: The environment does not give (man) potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoateor embryonic form… A Maslow

  13. Word 12: OxymoronDef:Afigure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by sideSent: Privacy on the Internet? That's an oxymoron.Catherine Butler

  14. Word 13: SqualidDef: Extremely dirty and unpleasant conditionsSent: It was heartbreaking to see people, pregnant women, elderly in wheelchairs, in those cramped, squalid conditions without food, water and toilets.John Edwards

  15. Word 14: DelineateDef: Describe something precisely.Sent: Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson

  16. Word 15: QuaintDef: Attractively unusual or old-fashionedSent: Every big city has its little communities, but they don't have the quaint, small-town charm.Michael Goss

  17. Word 16: RudimentaryDef:Relating to basic facts or principles, the earliest stages of developmentSent: The only thing they can do is very rudimentary tasks like finding a point on a map.StephaneBaldi

  18. Word 17: SophomoricDef: Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgmentSent: It's so silly and sophomoric. I'm not particularly outraged. It's certainly not the worst insult I've received. Bob Littlefield

  19. Word 18: CapitulateDef: Cease to resist an opponent, surrenderSent: I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.Samuel Johnson

  20. Word 19: ImperceptibleDef: Impossible to perceive or seeSent: As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible. Lacy Hunt

  21. Word 20: ConvergeDef:Come together from different directions so as eventually to meetSent: Happiness is a sunbeam which… when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the convergedlight on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness.Jane Porter

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