We're expanding our minds & vocabularies today with this installment of "Vocabulary - Use It Or Lose It." Are you ready?
Take a look at the word list (shown below) and pick one word that you're not already familiar with in your day-to-day vocabulary. Use an online dictionary (such as this one: http://www.merriam-webster.com) to define it. Post the word, its part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.), and the definition. Be sure to look through what others have posted! It'll help all of us improve our vocabularies! As an extra challenge, you can try using that word correctly in a sentence!
Abstain
Blighted
Credulous
Enshroud
Haughtiness
Lachrymose
Obfuscate
Plethora
Repudiate
Tedium
13 comments:
Abstain - Verb
To hold one self back voluntarily.
To hinder, to withhold.
example
Some of my friends abstain from eating meat.
Indira H
Blighted - verb - to impair the quality or effect
The virus has blighted his kidneys.
Maria Rodriguez-Trelles
mirlene -
Abstain to refrain deliberately and often with an effort
blighted : To suffer frommor become affected with blight
credilous : Ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence.
mirlene
lachrymose is not the dictionary.
pletora: an overabundance
Blighted- Verb
To impare the quality or effects.
John see's his future been blighted if the economy dosen't change.
Sheila W.
ab·stain
Function: intransitive verb
: to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice abstain from drinking
— ab·stain·er noun
Blighted
1 : to affect (as a plant) with blight
2 : to impair the quality or effect of the condition that has blighted his son's life —
intransitive verb
: to suffer from or become affected with blight
Crystal Smolter
Obfuscate Verb
to be evasive, unclear, or confusing
In trying to explain the crisis she only manage to obfuscate the issue.
Credulous: (adjective)
ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
Plethora: (Noun)
a bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood and marked by turgescence and florid complexion.
Lisa Bristol
Lachrymose: adjective
Meaning : given to tears or weeping.
Everytime she heard the song it made her lachrymose.
MT
Tedium:a tedious period of time.
Delbon Johnson
I got 9-10 it was fun.
Delbon Johnson
Plethora: 1 : a bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood and marked by turgescence and a florid complexion
2 : excess, superfluity;profusion, abundance
-Judith B
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