Thursday, November 29, 2007

Marc's Vocab


Soporific
1. Causing one to feel sleepy.
2. Adjective
3. drowsy-s, lethargic-s, alert-a
4. Picture -- >
5. The soporific effect of the sleeping pills left Alycia tired all day.


Prevaricate
1. To tell a lie
2. Verb
3. belie-s, perjure-s, honest-a
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5. Kevin had to prevaricate, so he told his teacher that is dog ate his homework.


Reprehensible
1. When a person is the “one to blame.”
2. Adjective
3. Blameworthy-s, reproachable-s, representative-e
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5. The reprehensible Kevin eventually got caught, and his dog was forgiven.

Penitent
1. Feeling sorry for doing something wrong.
2. Adjective
3. Guilty-s, remorse-s, pity-s
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5. The penitent Kevin, came home, apologized to his dog, and gave it a treat.

Rapacious
1. Hungry! Killing and eating other animals.
2. Adjective
3. Appetite-s, predatory-s, full stomach-a
4. Picture -- >
5. The rapacious football team ate probably one-hundred pizzas.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Marc,
You're a bit off with your description/sentence for rapacious. It's more along the line of predatory...to the point of being extortionary. (-2)
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