Heathers Vocab

Soporific

1. Sleepiness
2. Adjective
3. Syn: drowzy, hynotic, dull
4. Sometimes medicine can make you feel soporific.
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Prevaricate

1. To be misleading, to lie
2. Verb
3. Synonyms: evade, belie, dither
4. The boy prevaricated when he told his mom he was doing his homework, when he was really playing video games.
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Reprehensible

1. Deserving of reproof
2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: blamable, culpable, guilty
4. The girls reprehensible action of shoplifting got her into a lot of trouble
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Penitent

1. Feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing.
2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: regretful, sorry, remorseful
4. The penitent boy felt bad for cheating on his test.
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Rapacious

1. To be greedy
2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: greedy, grasping, voracious
4. The rapacious, rich man gave no money to the poor guy.
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Heathers Vocab

Belie

1. Verb
2. To misrepresent
3. Contradict, disprove, lie
4. Star magazine belies things about movie stars.


Clandestine

1. Hidden
2. Adjective
3. stealthy, convert, secret
4. The two step-sisters had a clandestine relationship.

Collusion

1. Fraud
2. Noun
3. involvement, knowledge, agreement
4. The judge and the defendant had a collusion

Dissemble

1. To have a false appearence
2. verb
3. dither, evade, stall
4. The teenage girls dissebled so they could get into the R rated movie

Nefarious

1. Very wicked
2. Adjective
3. evil, immoral, despicable
4. The preppy girl had a nefarious plan so her friend wouldn't win prom queen.

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Heathers Vocab

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Paradigm

Description: Forms/ arrangments of words coming off the original form.
Part of Speech: noun
Related Words: standard, pattern, model
Sentence: She had a paradigm of her bedroom.

Philology

Description: Literary study
Part of Speech: noun
Related Words: philologie, letters, words
Sentence: Amanda loved literature so much she decided to take philology in college.

Phonology

Description: Study of sound
Part of Speech: noun
Related Words: pronunciation, analogy, phonological
Sentence: Since Katie didnt know how to speak she had to have a phonologist to help her learn.

Rhetoric

Description: using language effectively to please
Part of Speech: noun
Related Words: style, expression, speach making
Sentence: When giving my speech for class president, i had to use rhetoric.

Syntax

Description: an orderly arrangment for words
Part of Speech: noun
Related Words: structure, fundaments, principles
Sentence: The syntax of the english language was very strange for the foreign exchange student.