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Vocabulary List #8

Vocabulary List #8. English 1 English 1 Honors. PED. “foot”. IMPEDIMENT. Noun Something that gets in the way; obstacle. One mistake at work need not be an impediment to your advancement in the company. EXPEDIENT. Adjective Practical; prudent.

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Vocabulary List #8

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  1. Vocabulary List #8 English 1 English 1 Honors

  2. PED “foot”

  3. IMPEDIMENT • Noun • Something that gets in the way; obstacle. • One mistake at work need not be an impediment to your advancement in the company.

  4. EXPEDIENT • Adjective • Practical; prudent. • Jasper decided it would be most expedient for him to leave town as soon as he could.

  5. PEDESTRIAN • Adjective • Lacking excitement; ordinary and dull. • Although I thought my trip to the city would be thrilling from start to finish, it turned out to be rather pedestrian.

  6. PED “child”

  7. PEDANT • Noun • One possessing abundant knowledge of minor, often uninteresting, things. • Only a pedant would go into such detail on the most minor points of grammar.

  8. PEDAGOGUE • Noun • A teacher, especially one who is dull and narrow-minded. • Because our previous teacher had been a terrible bore, we expected the new teacher to be a pedagogue of the same type.

  9. VEST “clothing”

  10. TRAVESTY • Noun • A bad imitation of; a perversion of. • Some of the books being published today are a travesty of the great literature that came before.

  11. VESTED • Adjective • Significant to one’s own profit or well-being. • Because Joy does not have a vested interest in the company, she doesn’t have to worry if it goes bankrupt.

  12. VESTMENT • Noun • Clothing worn to symbolize religious or political authority. • The youngest members of the choir did not want to wear their vestments because they felt that the clothes weren’t cool.

  13. DIVEST • Verb • To strip or remove a title or position of authority. • When his cheating was discovered, Brian was divested of the office of student body president.

  14. CORPOR/CORPU “body”

  15. CORPOREAL • Adjective • Having to do with the body. • Some religious writers focus on the differences between corporeal form and spiritual essence.

  16. CORPULENT • Adjective • Extremely fat; obese. • It seems shameful that the king is corpulent while his people are thin and starving.

  17. INCORPORATE • Verb • To bring together features, ideas, or elements. • The most popular recipes in the cookbook manage to incorporate ideas about health and nutrition without sacrificing flavor.

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