Senior Purple Class Vocab Homework
1. Choose any ten (10) vocabulary words from the list below and write sentences using them correctly in context and giving clues to their meanings.
2. Post your sentences as comments on Schoolsville using your first name, last initial, and section color to identify yourself.
I hope to make up your vocabulary test (on Tuesday, Sept. 27) using sentences from the three senior sections.
Here's the list:
Antebellum—before the war
Antithesis--opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong.
Autocratic—rule by a single person, dictatorship
Benefactor--a person who confers a benefit; kindly helper.
Asynchronous--not occurring at the same time.
Circumlocution—talking in circles; roundabout speaking
Convene--to come together or assemble, usually for some public purpose.
Counteract—to act in opposition to
Credo—any creed or formula of belief
Verdict—the outcome of a trial, the “true words”
Dissuade--to deter by advice or persuasion
Equidistant---same in distance
Extract –to get, pull, or draw out, esp. with effort or skill
Fluctuate—to change continually; to flow back and forth
Hyperbolic—in an exaggerated manner
Innocuous—not harmful
Intermittent stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again
Malady--illness
Neophyte--beginner
Omnivorous—something that eats all types of food
Multifaceted-- having many aspects or phases
Permeate—to spread throughout
Sanctimonious—holier than thou
Retrospect—(n) contemplation of the past; (v) to look back in thought
Divert—to change the direction of; turn aside from a path or course
posted by JTF @ 8:21 AM
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1. My grandmother is a benefactor to our church because donates money each week.
2. After meeting with the dean, the verdict was a three-day suspension.
3. The bad reviews online dissuaded me from buying the new camera.
4. Over the past week, the weather has fluctuated from high 80s to low 60s.
5. I went to the doctor in seek of medicine to cure my malady.
6. The detour we encountered on the way to the beach diverted us from our normal route, making our drive an extra two hours.
7. On Friday, the student body will convene in the gym for the pep rally.
8. In retrospect, an umbrella would have been a good idea for the rainy walk into school this morning.
9. The surgeon extracted the tumor with a steady hand that required a lot of concentration.
10. The medicine counteracted the effects of my headache and I was instantly feeling better.
The judge announced the verdict of the trial and the prisoner was escorted to jail.
I had to dissuade my parents from grounding me.
I live in the middle of my two best friends houses, so they're both equidistant from my house.
I had to extract the bad sentence from my paper.
I hate it when my grades fluctuate in stead of being consistent.
I frequently come down with a malady on test days.
Freshmen are such neophytes.
I always get lost when I drive, and I must divert my car.
Teenagers always talk hyperbolic.
The team convened to make a plan for the next game.
Hitler wanted Germany to be an autocratic nation, ruled by himself.
When my sister doesn't know what she is talking about, she talks in circumlocution.
The judge gave the verdict on the trial which was guilty.
My house and Annie's house are equidistant to the pool.
I tried to extract the story from her but she kept her lips sealed.
My brother always exaggerates his malady to some harmful and deadly disease.
In retrospect, I probably wouldn't have jumped off the bridge if I had known I would break my leg.
I tried to divert my moms attention away from my report card by doing lots of chores.
I tried to dissuade Meghan from wearing the dress because it made her look fat.
The teachers mood was always fluctuating depending on wether we were talking or not.
1. Shelly could attend both the volleyball and the football games because they were asynchronous.
2. The homeowner’s society convened to discuss ways to help make the neighborhood greener.
3. Mary tried to dissuade Shelly from going to the wild college party.
4. Shelly had her wisdom teeth extracted because there was no room for more teeth in her mouth.
5. The drop of food coloring began to permeate throughout the glass of water.
6. When Shelly got the flu, it was the worst malady she had since she was two.
7. Shelly tried to divert her mother’s attention from the hole in the wall by showing her mother her A+ paper.
8. In retrospect, it was not a good idea to see what paper tasted like when I was in preschool.
9. The multifaceted diamond was so ornate that it was put on display in a museum.
10. The criminal sat, with sweaty palms, in the courtroom for the verdict of his appeal.
The objective of the defense is to counteract the plays of the offense.
The verdict of the trial suprised everyone.
The police were able to dissuade the young man from jumping out of a 10 story window.
It can be painful to have one's teeth extracted.
Bunnies seem so innocuous until they attack.
Peope with alzheimer's disease have intermittent periods of clarity.
Bob's malady kept him in the hostpital for months.
Contrary to popular belief, bears are omnivorous.
The smell of her perfume permeated through the air.
The plane was diverted and forced to land because of an emergency on board.
1. Michael Vick is a huge benefactor to the Eagles.
2. Some bugs are considered omnivorous, for they eat plants and meat.
3. Abraham Lincoln dissuaded people to have slaves.
4. The child has a serious malady, which will keep him from school for many days.
5. The stock prices fluctuate daily.
6. In order to counteract the poison, they gave him the antidote.
7. Although frightening in appearance, Daddy Long Leg Spiders are innocuous to humans.
8. The man intermittently went to Iraq to serve his country.
9. The surgeon extracted the wooden shards from the man’s arm.
10. The verdict of the trial revealed the man was guilty of all charges.
***(im not sure if this is the right class)***
1. The President resigned after 30 years of autocratic rule.
2. The homeless gentleman was saved by the gracious benefactor who donated his clothes.
3. Voters gave their verdict on the government's economic record last night by voting for the opposition.
4. California is roughly equidistant from Maryland or Delaware.
5. Some mushrooms look innocuous but are in fact poisonous.
6. All the rose bushes seem to be suffering from the same mysterious malady.
7. A foul smell of expired milk permeated the whole building.
8. Vegetable prices at the farmer’s market fluctuate according to the season.
9. The traffic will divert through the side streets while the main road is being resurfaced.
10. The dead tooth was eventually extracted from the suffering boy.
1. The severity of my mother’s malady landed her in the hospital over night
2. The man tried to boast his sanctimoniousness by carrying a bible and shouting his preaches aloud.
3. My dance teacher’s mood tends to fluctuate day by day so we never know what to expect.
4. My parents tried to dissuade me from taking the back roads because, even though they are a much faster route, they are not as safe as the main roads.
5. The judge’s verdict on the trial was clear, the criminal was guilty.
6. There is no way a neophyte could keep up with such an advanced class
7. My omnivorous dog will eat anything off the floor no matter what it is or where it’s been.
8. My friends like to tell stories in such a hyperbolic manner that they sometimes become hard to believe
9. Policemen, firemen, doctors, and nurses are contributing benefactors that help our society run smoothly
10. Although the innocuous chemicals are not poisonous, we are still reminded to take precautions and be sure not to swallow any of the liquids.
During the dance routine, one dance member was asynchronous with the other members and that cost them the trophy.
The car door was extracted by the fireman making an attempt to save the passenger before the car lit up into flames.
The ancient blade found inside a ship wreck was innocuous and couldn’t kill a fly.
The advanced ice skater got a cold just before the competition, but her neophyte performance still managed to win herself a bronze metal.
The man whom everyone was nervous around turned out to be a benefactor who volunteers to feed to homeless.
The bright lights that shined against the water fall fluctuated back and forth between red , blue, and green colors.
I have always questioned whether or not my dog is an omnivorous animal because she tends to eat everything I wouldn’t eat including her own body waste.
Although both routes to go to the store are equidistant, I can drive there faster taking one route because there are no stop lights.
If photographers could predict the intermittent pattern of lightening, they would probably have better pictures of lightening during a storm.
By the time the girl proved the rumor to be false, the terrible story about her had already permeated throughout the entire school.
1) Student council convened to talk about the school dance.
2) The jury decided on a guilty verdict for the defendant.
3) The malady spread around the school like wildfire.
4) The neophyte to the dance team had trouble with the new routines.
5) The autocrat ruled so harshly that people began to revolt.
6) The unpredictable stock market fluctuates wildly during the bad economy.
7) Jane’s retrospect of high school was filled with regret.
8) Jill tried to dissuade Sally from going to the dance.
9) Sally was the benefactor of the fundraiser for cancer.
10) Catholics say a credo when they attend mass.
1. The dentist extracted the tooth from his patient's mouth.
2. The old man picked his oldest son as his main benefactor.
3. After he got into a huge fight, Tom retold the story in such a hyperbolic manner.
4. The rain water permeated through the window and onto the floor.
5. The young man was a neophyte in the working world.
6. The criminal tried to divert the detectives from his path by leaving false clues.
7. The seventh grade science class studied omnivorous animals.
8. She missed homecoming because she came down with a rare malady.
9. Kelly had a multifaceted personality; When she was with her friends she was one person, and around parents she was another.
10. The student was not sure if he would be exempt from the final because his grade fluctuated between an A and B all year.
1.) The atrocious court case, that was breaking news all over the world, came to a closing verdict that shocked everyone.
2.) My parents always try to dissuade me from staying up late on school nights, but I have too much to do at night.
3.) The girl took offense to being called a neophyte because she has played soccer her whole life.
4.) The new club convened for one final meeting before the last preparations were finished.
5.) Historians would say that Hitler’s autocratic reign was one of the most infamous dictatorships know to date.
6.) One of the most important ingredients to my grandma’s famous cookies is the vanilla extract.
7.) He began feeling sick again, it turns out he was in the grip of a persistent malady.
8.) All the girls’ summer training turned out to be too difficult, so it counteracted their initial plans of being fully prepared for her most important race later in the season.
9.) Even though your decision seems innocuous now, make sure to think about what could happen in the future.
10.) The team ran in equidistant intervals to make sure they got the right amount of recovery time in between their work out.
1. After many days of trial, the jury finally announced their verdict, a vote 9 to 1 in favor of the plaintiff.
2. Our star player was a benefactor in our twelve and zero season.
3. When Alex became sick, his mom did not want him in school because she was scared the other kids might pick up his malady.
4. All of the inexperienced Neophyte skiers stick to the bunny hill.
5. Many Jews convened to see Jesus preach in Nazareth, there were so many there some needed to stand in trees to see.
6. St. Marks is the best place in the world to permeate a secret to the whole student body.
7. By crashing the ball into the other I diverted both balls original paths.
8. The bible is one example of Christian’s credo.
9. It was a tough challenge trying to distract the bottle from the babies hand without waking him.
10. Even if the small creature seems to be innocuous, you should still caution because they may still turn out to be deadly.
1. Due to the extremely generous donations from the benefactor, the charity was able to improve the lives of many unfortunate children.
2. The members of the school board had to convene to discuss some crucial decisions for the school year.
3. The man always is always trying to dissuade anyone from an idea that does not benefit him is some way.
4. I knew that if we left our houses at the same time we would arrive at the party together because our houses were equidistant from the place.
5. I wiped the sweat off my forehead and was completely relieved when I read that the substance I swallowed was innocuous.
6. The hikers got lost in the enormous mountains when the lead man mistakenly diverted from the main trail course.
7. Due to the boy’s severe malady, he was forced to go home from school and go straight to the doctors for medical assistance.
8. The thirsty campers were very satisfied when one person made the clever idea to extract the juice from the oranges to make orange juice.
9. Many of the advanced golfers volunteered to help the neophyte golfers learn the ropes and skill of the game.
10. We all knew it had to be a hyperbolic story when everything she explained seemed so unrealistic and not true.
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