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Vocabulary Week 1. Word 1: Ballistic Def : To become suddenly very angry or the flight of a bullet or missile through the air Sent: He just went crazy. She said the guy just went ballistic and starting firing off shots . Chuck O'Leary.
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Word 1: Ballistic Def: To become suddenly very angry or the flight of a bullet or missile through the air Sent: He just went crazy. She said the guy just went ballistic and starting firing off shots. Chuck O'Leary
Word 2: Brackish Def: A of mixture fresh and seawater that makes it slightly saltySent: Pacific herring depend on a clean estuary with plenty of freshwater inflow to create productive brackishconditions.Zeke Grader
Word 3: Inadvertently Def: Doing without realizing, accidently Sent: We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded… Elliot Eisner
Word 4: AmenableDef: Overly willing to obey others Sent: The broad masses of a population are more amenableto the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.Adolf Hitler
Word 5:HeedDef: To listen to someone’s adviceSent: Advice is least heededwhen most needed. English Proverb
Word 6: EffronteryDef: Behavior that is rude and disrespectfulSent: The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently aneffrontery. Samuel Johnson
Word 7: Impertinent Def: Disrespectful, not courteous Sent: All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome. Ben Jonson
Word 8: Duplicitous Def: Two-faced, behaving dishonestly in order to trick someone Sent: George W. Bush is a simple-minded but honest man who put too much faith in duplicitousadvisors. Richard Cohen
Word 9: Imprudent Def: Lacking in good judgment, unwise, not prudent Sent: We're on an imprudent, unsustainable fiscal path, ... The status quo is not an option…David Walker
Word 10: Perilous Def: Full of peril or danger, hazardous Sent: Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous. Confucius
Word 11: Mirth Def: Laughter, gaiety, or merrimentSent: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare
Word 12: AbashedDef:To make ashamed or uneasySent: Abash'dthe Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. John Milton
Word 13:DomicileDef: Place where you liveSent: I believe the Supreme Court has already ruled dormitories can be considered domiciles.Claire Ebel
Word 14: DrudgeryDef: Boring and unpleasant to doSent: To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgeryof a school is to put a racehorse in a mill. Charles Caleb Colton
Word 15: Exonerate Def: To officially state that someone is not responsible for something that happened Sent: …the overwhelming evidence that DNA testing is producing. We now are up to 69 individuals that have been exonerated..Barry Scheck
WordObdurateDef: Resistant to moral influence or persuasion Sent: We were ... not surprised but disappointed by the very stubborn and obdurate reaction we encountered in Belgrade. Wesley Clark
Word 17: ImperiousDef: Domineering and arrogant Sent: Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperioushand of a despot. Thomas Carlyle
Word 18: Incessant Def: Continuing without stop Sent: There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. Henry David Thoreau
Word 19: Chagrin Def:Feeling of disappoint and embarrassment caused failure Sent: Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin… Henry David Thoreau
Word 20: Impudent Def: Boldly disrespectful Sent:When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist without impudent people?” It cannot. Marcus Aurelius Antonius