Sunday, October 6, 2013

Vocab #3

Definitions 

Accomplice: a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing


Annihilate: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence


Arbitrary: subject to individual will or judgement without restrictions


Brazen: shameless or impudent


Catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change


Exodus: a going out, a departure


Facilitate: to make easier or less difficult


Incorrigible: bad beyond correction or reform


Latent: present but not visible

Militant: vigorously active and aggressive


Morose: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored


Opaque: not transparent or translucent


Paramount: above others in rank or authority


Prattle: talk in a foolish or simple-minded way


Rebut: to oppose by contrary proof

Reprimand: severe reproof or rebuke


Servitude: slavery or bondage of any kind


Slapdash: hasty, haphazard


Stagnant: not flowing or running


Succumb: to give way to superior force

Sentences
  • The accomplice was sentenced to 15 years in prison. 
  • The teenager annihilated his car.
  • The decision to buy the dress was an arbitrary one. 
  • The rapper was brazen because he would say anything he wanted.
  • Our last score was the catalyst that led to our win.
  • Because of the war, there was an exodus and everyone moved to America
  • She facilitated our sorrows by getting rid of all of our work. 
  • The phone was so broken it was incorrigible
  • His scar was painful but latent to the naked eye.
  • He was militant for his cause. 
  • The old man sat morosely in his chair. 
  • The wall was an opaque color from the outside.
  • A managerial job is paramount to an average job.
  • The intoxicated man prattled about his mistakes in life.
  • The lawyer was able to rebut the statement to the jury. 
  • Adidas picked their official reprimand for their new line of clothes. 
  • Africans were forced into servitude and became slaves in the 1700's.
  • The student wrote a slapdash paper.
  • The old pipes in the building caused a stagnant flow throughout the apartments. 
  • Unfortunately the man succumbed to his old ways. 

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