Vocabulary Unit 3

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Vocabulary Unit 3
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1. Adversary

• Their biggest adversary is the Lake Central
  basketball team.

They can never win against them.
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2. Alienate

• To make friends, one must not alienate others and
  keep a positive atmosphere.

You cannot make friends with enemies.
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3. Artifice

• The thief used his artifice to steal 4 dogs, a
  cat, and a big screen t.v.

It took a great deal of planning.
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4. Coerce

• Frank tried to coerce the child into giving up
  his toy car.

He did not want to go in.
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5. Craven

• The wizard was able to give a heart to the craven
  lion.

How is the lion describe in Wizard of Oz?
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6. Culinary

• Le Cordon Bleu is a French school of culinary
  art.

This art is not on paper or canvas.
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7. Delete

• In order to cut costs, we must delete a few zeros
  from your paycheck.

Ohh no. Theyre taking your money.
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8. Demise

• The ceremony was held on the anniversary of his
  demise.

He is sorely missed.
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9. Exhilarate

• The presence of a Krispy Kreme doughnut
  exhilarates the senses.

My mouth waters just thinking about them
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10. Fallow

• The farmer left the field fallow while he was on
  vacation.

It needed to be watered.
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11. Harass

• The school bully took it upon himself to harass
  the new student.

Why do they always do that?
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12. Inclement

• The game was cancelled due to the inclement
  weather.

Rain, Rain, go away.
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13. Muse

• Jessica was often caught in a muse about her new
  found love.

She was staring and not working.
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14. Negligible

• The injury of the teams best player is
  negligible and wont affect the outcome of
  tonights game.

They were able to win without them.
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15. Perpetuate

• Every winter we try to perpetuate our tradition
  of building snow creatures.

Ahhh, family traditions
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16. Precedent

• When George Washington left office after 4 years
  of presidency, he set the precedent for the
  succeeding presidents.

The knew how to act.
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17. Punitive

• After the food fight, punitive measures were
  taken against the 3 students who started the
  whole thing.

SUSPENDED
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18. Redress

• The doctor had to redress the wounds on the
  accident victim.

The bandages were done incorrectly.
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19. Sojourn

• On her vacation, she went on a days sojourn to
  the city.

She toured the sites.
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20. Urbane

• The urbane manner of the candidate almost
  convinced me to vote for him.

He looks the part of a President.
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antagonist, opponent, rival

• adversary

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estrange, turn away, separate

• alienate

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trickery, ruse

• artifice

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bully, compel

• coerce

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cowardly

• craven

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related to cooking

• culinary

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expunge, remove

• delete

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decease, death

• demise

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excite, enliven, stimulate

• exhilarate

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unproductive, inert,dormant

• fallow

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pester, bedevil, annoy

• harass

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blustery, harsh, stormy

• inclement

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meditate, daydream, contemplate

• muse

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insignificant, trivial

• negligible

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continue, preserve

• perpetuate

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model, tradition

• precedent

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penalizing, retaliatory

• punitive

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rectify, remedy, correct

• redress

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visit, stopover

• sojourn

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elegant, suave

• urbane