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Vocabulary Week 1

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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Vocabulary Week 1

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  1. Vocabulary Week 1

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Word 5:HeedDef: To listen to someone’s adviceSent: Advice is least heededwhen most needed. English Proverb

  7. 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

  8. Word 7: Impertinent Def: Disrespectful, not courteous Sent: All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome. Ben Jonson

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Word 10: Perilous Def: Full of peril or danger, hazardous Sent: Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous. Confucius

  12. Word 11: Mirth Def: Laughter, gaiety, or merrimentSent: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare

  13. 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

  14. Word 13:DomicileDef: Place where you liveSent: I believe the Supreme Court has already ruled dormitories can be considered domiciles.Claire Ebel

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

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