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INTRODUCING Vocabulary List #8:
1. eccentric – 1st block
2. foreboding – 1st block
3. entice – 3rd block
4. palpable – 3rd block – posted below
5. dismal – 3rd block
6. lethargic – 3rd block – posted below
7. idyllic – 3rd block
8. sordid – 4th block –
9. perpetual – 4th block – posted below
10. meekly – 4th block – posted below
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Foreboding
noun
Definition: A sense of impending evil or misfortune
Sentence: “Zed?” Full of foreboding, Adam quickened his stroke on the pedals.”
*Sorry I accidentally put on Vocabulary List # 7
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Eccentric
def-odd or unusual in apperance or behaivor
sent-holmes was a strangly brilliant,eccentric medical student
Check your capitalization, punctuation, and give us the citation please. And we need the part of speech. Thanks for posting.
Here’s what I could find on the other two words;
Eccentric- unconventional and slightly strange. (adjective)
Sentence- It’s delightfully eccentric design will appeal to unconventional people who enjoy the unusual.
Is the other word forboding and not forbading? All I could find on forbading was that it means of an evil omen.
You ROCK!!!! Thanks for looking this up. The other word is foreboding.
We need a citation for eccentric.
1st block only has 2 words, yet neither of them are on here.
1. eccentric – 1st block
2. foreboding – 1st block
1st Block is falling short. But we could look at this as an opportunity. Joshua, my suggestion to you would be to gather what is required for the greater good. You could have the honor of doing something wonderful and selfless for your classmates.
Find a sample sentence.
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And post the details for the classes.
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Mr.Moshe, we checked the spelling in the book on words like sivilize. You can google it and click on the 1st link. It shows the example, and it is this way. However I will repost it in the ‘correct format’. Saying this since no official format was selected.
Word: Dismal- Causing gloom or depression; dreart
Part of speech: Adj.
Sentence: “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the tine; considering how dismal, regular, and derent the window was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. (Twain, 11)
The misspelled word was in your definition. Please see below. Next time proof everything before you post, and post the entire definition.
“causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.”
– http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dismal
Also, I fixed your post quotation mark wise below. Please compare them. Research papers you write in the future will be handed back to you for correcting if you make these mistakes.
“The Widow Douglas she took me for her son and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the tine; considering how dismal, regular, and derent the window was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out.” (Twain, 11)
word: entice
part of speech: transitive verb
definition: to attract by arousing hope or desire
sentence: “She enticed me with promise of icecream and candy.” (Lang,95)
entice (transitive verb)
Definition- to attract by arousing hope or desire
sentence – She enticed me with promise of icecream and candy. (Lang,95)
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Dismal- Adj.- Causing gloom or depression; dreart
“the Widow Douglas she took me for her son and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the tine; considering how dismal, regular, and derent the window was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. (Twain, 11)
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Word: Idyllic
Part of Speech: adjective.
Definition: of or having the nature of charm or picturesque
Sentence: “It had been raining for eight days straight at the end of June in Rosewood, Pennsylvania, a wealthy, idyllic suburb about twenty miles from Philidelphia, and everyone was beyond fed up.” (Shepard 1-2)
Word: Lethargic
Part of Speech: Adjective
Definition: Of, pertaining to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish
Sentence: “People become lethargic and drift into a sleep-like state.” (Condie, 43)
Word: Meekly (Meyer 27)
Sentence : “I went meekly to the desk, my face white for once instead of red, and handed her my slip”
Definition: showing patience and humility; gentle (Adj.)
Word: Palpable
Part of Speech: Adjective
Definition: Abe to be touched or felt
Sentence: ” Now, thinking about the feeling of fear as he pedaled home along the river path, he remembered that moment of palpable stomach-sinking terror when the aircraft had streaked above.” ( Lowry, 3)
Sordid:
Adjective
Sentence-“And speaking as a soildier, I can assure you that the army will feel insulted to a man that one of its members should have been forcibly detained by the police on a false charge, and cross- examined about some sordid political crime of which he knew nothing.” P. 114 The 3 Musketeers
Definition- Morally degraded
perpetual-adjective
definition-neverending or continuing without interruption
Sentence-There were other elements which kept the French countryside in a state of almost perpetual unrest.