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Rate the vocabulary words…. Contagious Epidemic Impact Internal Resistance . Quarantine Pandemic Feasible Convergence Discredit. Vocabulary Week #8. Contagious (adj) spreadable by touch or through the air Epidemic (n) rapid spread of a disease among many people Impact

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  1. Rate the vocabulary words… • Contagious • Epidemic • Impact • Internal • Resistance • Quarantine • Pandemic • Feasible • Convergence • Discredit

  2. Vocabulary Week #8 • Contagious • (adj) spreadable by touch or through the air • Epidemic • (n) rapid spread of a disease among many people • Impact • (n) an effect or result • Internal • (adj) inside of something; building, body, etc. • Resistance • (n) ability to fight off or overcome something • Quarantine • (n) strict isolation of someone/ something • Pandemic • (adj) spread throughout a country, continent or the world • Feasible • (adj) possible • Convergence • (n) separate elements (things) coming or joining together • Discredit • (v) harm the reputation, dishonor or disgrace

  3. Rate the vocabulary words… • Hyperbole • Denotation • Genre • Assonance • Apprehensive • Brevity • Cite • Elucidate • Ineffable • Magnanimous

  4. Vocabulary Week #9 • Hyperbole • (n) obvious exaggeration, ex. "wait for an eternity” • Denotation • (n) explicit or direct meaning of something • Genre • (n) kind, sort, style, category • Assonance • (adj) repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighboring words, ex. “I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless” • Apprehensive • (adj) anxious, fearful about the future • Brevity • (n) brief, short in time or duration • Cite • (v) to quote as an authority or example • Elucidate • (v) to make clear, to explain • Ineffable • (adj) cannot be described or expressed • Magnanimous • (adj) forgiving, unselfish

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