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Vocabulary Unit 12

Vocabulary Unit 12. English 1 English 1 Honors. RAP. “to snatch; greedy, devouring”. RAPACIOUS. Adjective Seizing everything; greedy. A rapacious group of colonists seized all the land for themselves, leaving none for the people who arrived later. RAPT. Adjective

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Vocabulary Unit 12

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  1. Vocabulary Unit 12 English 1 English 1 Honors

  2. RAP “to snatch; greedy, devouring”

  3. RAPACIOUS • Adjective • Seizing everything; greedy. • A rapacious group of colonists seized all the land for themselves, leaving none for the people who arrived later.

  4. RAPT • Adjective • Giving total attention to; captivated. • As a program on birds played across the screen, the kittens sat rapt in front of the television.

  5. SURREPTITIOUS • Adjective • Hidden or secret; done without notice. • With a surreptitious motion of his hand, the magician hid the coin in the scarf.

  6. CEP “seize, take”

  7. PERCEPTIBLE • Adjective • Able to be noticed or felt. • The wink that Kevin gave Laurel was so fast it was barely perceptible.

  8. SUSCEPTIBLE • Adjective • Able to be influenced. • Ben felt that if he were too open-minded, he would be susceptible to harmful ideas, so he lived in isolation.

  9. PRECEPT • Noun • An idea important to a system of beliefs. • One of the main precepts of the religion is kindness to other living creatures.

  10. VOR “to eat”

  11. VORACIOUS • Adjective • Devouring everything. • The voracious locusts left a path of ruined crops a mile long.

  12. OMNIVOROUS • Adjective • Feeding on both animals and plants. • My two brother are strict vegetarians, but a I consider myself omnivorous.

  13. HERBIVOROUS • Adjective • Eating only plants. • Early American pioneers found lots of grazing land for the herbivorous animals.

  14. CAD/CAS “to fall”

  15. DECADENT • Adjective • Overly luxurious and lacking moral discipline; excessive. • The billionaire’s spoiled children wasted millions of dollars on decadent parties.

  16. CADENCE • Noun • Rhythmic rise and fall. • The beautiful cadence of Jeff’s voice as he read lulled us to sleep.

  17. CASUALTY • Noun • Something or someone injured, killed or eliminated. • Grandmother said that politeness was just one more casualty of a world that couldn’t slow down.

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