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Vocabulary Words 1-5 Week 1 August 26-30

Vocabulary Words 1-5 Week 1 August 26-30. Adversary ( noun ): an opponent or enemy. Aplomb ( noun ): self-confidence, especially in a difficult situation; poise; assurance. Apprehensive ( adjective ): anxious or fearful; uneasy.

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Vocabulary Words 1-5 Week 1 August 26-30

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  1. Vocabulary Words 1-5 Week 1 August 26-30 • Adversary (noun): an opponent or enemy. • Aplomb (noun): self-confidence, especially in a difficult situation; poise; assurance. • Apprehensive (adjective): anxious or fearful; uneasy. • Aptitude (noun): the ability to learn or understand something quickly. • Attentive (adjective): (1)giving attention to something. (2) Paying careful attention to the comfort or concerns of others; considerate.

  2. Vocabulary Words 6-10Week 2 September 2-6 • Accentuate (transitive verb): (1) to give prominence to; emphasize or intensify. (2) to pronounce with a stress or accent. (3) to mark with an accent mark. • Alliteration (noun): the repetition of the same sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters. • Analogy (noun): (1)similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise unlike. (2) an explanation of something by comparing it with something similar. • Antibody (noun): a protein produced in the blood or tissues in response to the presence of a specific toxin, foreign blood cell, or other antigen. • Aspire (transitive verb): to have a great ambition; desire strongly.

  3. Vocabulary Words 11-15Week 3 September 9-13 • Bamboozle (transitive verb): to deceive by elaborate trickery; hoodwink. • Bizarre (adj.): very strange or odd • Boisterous (adj.): (1) rough and stormy; violent. (2) noisy and lacking restraint or discipline. • Boycott (transitive verb): to act together in refusing to use, buy from, or deal with, especially as an expression of protest. (noun): a refusal to buy from or deal with a person, business, or nation as a form of protest. • Camouflage (noun): (1) a method of concealing military troops or equipment by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings. (2) protective coloring or a disguise that conceals. (3) cloth or other material used for camouflage.

  4. Vocabulary Words 16-20Week 4 September 16-20 • Chronology (noun): (1) the order or sequence of events. (2) a list or table of events analyzed in order of time of occurrence. • Commemorate (transitive verb): (1) to honor the memory of someone or something especially with a ceremony. (2) to be a memorial to as a holiday, ceremony, or statue. • Cower (intransitive verb): to crouch or draw back, as from pain or fear; cringe. • Decorum (noun): proper behavior or conduct; propriety. • Deduction (noun): (1) the act of subtracting; subtraction. (2) an amount that is or may be subtracted. (3) the process of reaching a conclusion by reasoning, especially from general principles. (4) a conclusion reached by this process.

  5. Vocabulary Words 21-25Week 5 September 23-27 • Deign (verb): to be willing to do something that one considers beneath one’s dignity; condescend; to condescend to give. • Despondent (adj.): feeling depression of spirits from loss of hope, confidence, or courage; dejected. • Dialogue (noun): (1) a conversation between two or more people. (2) the words spoken by characters of a play or story. (3) a literary work written in the form of conversation. (4) an exchange of ideas or opinions. • Divulge (transitive verb): to make known; reveal, tell. • Eclectic (adj.): choosing or taking what appears to be best from various sources.

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