Thursday, November 29, 2007

Allysa Dowden

Rapacious
means to be greedy
Adjective
savage preying, avid
The boy was caught because of his rapacious emotions.
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Penitent
ashamed, or regretting
adjective
apologetic, bashful, repentant
I was penitent after i crashed my mothers car.
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Reprehensible
Shameful
adjective
bad, unholy, shameful
I was reprehensible when broke the front window playing baseball with my brother, who I let get introuble for it.
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Prevaricate
lie
adjective
quibble, garble, con
I prevaricated to my mom about what happened to the front window, and I was not involved.
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Soporific
making somebody sleepy
adjective
traquilizing, soothing, dull
The guest speaker was soporific.
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1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Alyssa,
Your sentence for rapacious does not make sense (-1).
In your sentence for "penitent" you need to capitalize the second "I" (-1)
You do not identify your related words. (-5)
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