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Learn the meanings of the words dissolution, foraging, amendable, precarious, criterion, guise, lesion, gird, fetish, and disperse. Enhance your vocabulary skills with these word definitions.
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noun dissolution To break into parts; to terminate a contract Link: Solution Also: dissolve Solution for the DISSOLUTION … Voc 10
Verb forage To search for food Link: forest Wild animals FORAGING for food in the FOREST. Voc 10
NOT: amendable adj amenable Agreeable, responsible to authority, pleasant, cooperative Link: Mean bull Also: amenability Mean bulls are NOT amenable Voc 10
adj precarious unsafe, unsteady, unstable Link: Carry us • Carry us when it’s precarious… Voc 10
noun criterion Standard for judgment Also: Criteria = plural Link: librarian The librarian often uses Shakespeare as a criterion for determining great plays. Voc 10
noun guise Appearance; semblance Link: disguise GUISE means actual appearance DISGUISE means pretend/fake appearance To be disguised the spy would have to change his guise. Voc 10
noun lesion wound, injury; especially one created by a disease Link: LEGION Soldiersof the Foreign LEGION suffering from their LESIONS. Voc 10
verb gird To encircle as with a belt; to prepare as for action Link: herd Link: HERD Curly GIRDED the HERD with his trusty lasso. Voc 10
noun fetish an object of unreasonable obsessive reverence or attention Link: The BRITISH have a FETISH for tea. Voc 10
verb disperse Scatter; distribute widely Also: dispersal Link: PURSE The thug DISPERSED Dee’s PURSE... Voc 10
Greek + Latin WORD PARTS Know these, know 1000’s! Voc 10
Word Roots: Your chart Voc 10
Word Roots: Your chart Voc 10
Word Roots: Your chart Voc 10
Vocab10 RELATED WORDS Voc 10
dissolution NOUN Dissolutedissolve adj The dissolution of the team.. The dissolute team… Voc 10
criteria plural criterion singular The criteria for college are that you… The one criterion is that you… Voc 10
dissolution NOUN dissolve VERB The dissolution of the team was… The team dissolved… Voc 10
disperse verb dispersal noun The crowd dispersed… The dispersal of the crowd… Voc 10
amenable adj amenability noun She was amenable to the instructions… Her amenability to the instructions was… Voc 10
Vocab 10 Which word? Quiz Voc 10
1. • to encircle • to prepare Voc 10
2. to search or hunt for food Voc 10
3. willing; pleasant; agreeable Voc 10
4. to scatter Voc 10
5. unsafe Voc 10
6. appearance Voc 10
7. a breaking up into parts Voc 10
8. an object causing obsessive behavior Voc 10
9. A standard or basis for judgment Voc 10
10. wound Voc 10
WORD PARTS 11. EARTH [root] Voc 10
WORD PARTS 12. FORMER Out of [root] Voc 10
WORD PARTS 13. RULE POWER [root] Voc 10
WORD PARTS 14. The science of the earth’s forces, motion, + energy Voc 10
WORD PARTS 15. Foreign …or from ‘beyond’ Voc 10
WORD PARTS 16. Rule or dominance of fathers Voc 10
WORD PARTS 17. To become glad; to become happier than your former mood Voc 10
WORD PARTS 18. To push or flow out, (as in a liquid) Voc 10
WORD PARTS 19. Ranking by importance Voc 10
WORD PARTS 20. Study of the earth (general properties) Voc 10
Answers1 1. gird 2. Forage 3. amenable 4. disperse 5. precarious Voc 10
Answers2 6. guise 7. dissolution 8. fetish 9. criterion 10. lesion Voc 10
Answers3 11. GEO 12. EX 13. ARCHY 14. GEOphysics 15. EXotic Voc 10
Answers4 16. patriARCHY 17. EXhilarate 18. EXcrete 19. hierARCHY 20. GEOlogy Voc 10
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