"Vocabulary - Use It Or Lose It."
Are you ready?
Take a look at the word list (shown below) and pick three words 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 words, 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
10 comments:
Enshroud - transitive verb - to cover or enclose with or as if with a shroud
Lachrymose - Adjective - given to tears or weeping
Tedium - noun - the quality or state of being tedious
“Being assigned to hole punch this trial binder is a very tedium job.”
Melissa Lobsinger
Plethora - Noun - a bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood and marked by turgescence and a florid complexion.
Credulous - Adjective - ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence proceeding from credulity
Haughtiness - Adjective - blatantly and disdainfully proud
The woman that was admitted to the hospital was plethora when she arrived.
Cassandra Jones
1. HAUGHTINESS: (NOUN) disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk
She doesn't have many friends because of her haughtiness.
2. BLIGHTED: (VERB)
the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues.
The plants died because they were blighted by th sun.
3. ABSTAIN: (VERB)
to hold oneself back voluntarily, esp. from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (usually fol. by from): to abstain from eating meat.
She had to abstain herself from the rude client in order to keep her job.
1.-OBFUSCATE (verb) transitive and intransitive verb to make something obscure or unclear, especially by making it unnecessarily complicate or make somebody confused.
Sentence: I feel obfuscate about all this new rules in my work.
2.-REPUDIATE (verb) to disapprove of something formally and strongly and renounce any connection with it or deny and reject something.
Sentence: I repudiate to accept the validity of raise the taxes on properties.
3.- ENSHROUD (verb) to cover or obscure something.
Sentence: The tallest building enshroud in black clouds.
Roxana Alvarez
Plethora- plenty of, full
Abstain- to refrain from
Tedium- being boring and tired
"There is a plethora of apples in the cabinet."
The words I selected are:
1. Blighted-verb, meaning to impair the quality or effect of.
2. Enshroud-verb, meaning to cover or enclose with or as if with a shroud.
3. Plethora-noun, meaning a bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood and marked by turgescence and a florid complextion.
SHENEA WALKER
Lachrymose- Adjective- Given to tears or weeping.
Abstain- Verb- To hold oneself back voluntarily.
Enshroud- Verb- To close or enclose with or as with a shroub.
I will abstain from yelling at the waitress that took a long time to bring me my drink.
Angela Richardson
Credulous (adjective) - too easily convinced that something is true.
The little girl was credulous to what happened.
Lachrymose (adjective) – crying or tending to cry easily and often.
Repudiate (transitive verb) – to disapprove of something formally and strongly and renounce any connection with it.
Maria C. Torres
5/10/2010
Enshroud - verb : to cover or enclose with or as if with a shroud
Credulous - adjective: ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
Blighted - verb : to impair the quality or effect of
Due to the severe drought, the mangoes on the tree were blighted.
Verona H
Blighted (verb)-to impair the quality or effect of.
Credulous (adjective)-ready to believe on slight or uncertain evidence.
Repudiate (transitive verb)-to refuse to have anything to do with.
The young man repudiated his former associates after his grades declined from semester to semester.
Mianta Durand
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