Word: adamant

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• Word adamant
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation ad-uh-muhnt
• Origins
• Related Forms adamantly (adverb)
• Sentence The teacher was adamant in his decision
  that the test would be on Monday, despite his
  students week-long complaints about all of their
  plans for homecoming weekend.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• 1 -- Completely unmoving in attitude or opinion
  in spite of disagreement from others
• 2 Too hard to cut, break, or pierce

Latin adamant hard metal, diamond (Greek a-
(not, without) daman (to tame or conquer))
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• Word perceptive
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation per-sep-tiv
• Origins
• Related Forms Perceptively (adverb)
  perceptiveness (noun) im/perceptible (adjective)
• Sentence The perceptive sniper noticed the tiny
  movement of the leaves in a tree two miles away,
  but he could tell by how far the branch was bent
  that it wasnt his target in the tree.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• 1 having or showing strong insight,
  understanding, or intuition
• 2 having the power or faculty of perceiving.
• 3 of, pertaining to, or showing perception.

Latin percept, meaning something seen
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• Word prerogative
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation puh-rog-uh-tiv
• Origins
• Related Forms none
• Sentence While the president doesnt have the
  ability to formally declare war against another
  country, it is his or her prerogative to order
  bombing attacks without congressional approval
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Latin Pre (before in advance of) roga(re)
(to ask)
1 an exclusive right, privilege, etc.,
allowed to someone because of their rank,
office, or title 2 a right, privilege,
etc., limited to a specific person or to persons
of a particular category
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• Word annotation
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation an-uh-tey-shuhn
• Origins
• Related Forms annotate (verb) notation (noun)
  notate (verb)
• Sentence Thanks to the annotations Umkulthoum
  wrote in the margins of her copy of The Prince,
  she remembered all of the explanations her
  professor had given the class about what the text
  meant.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Latin notare (to note, to mark)
a note or comment added to explain part of
a text or literary work
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• Word heinous
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation hey-nuhs (The h sound is
  important!)
• Origins
• Related Forms heinously (adverb) heinousness
  (noun)
• Sentence Jacobis crime was so heinous, even the
  serial killers in the federal penitentiary hated
  him for his raping and cannibalizing of three
  kindergarten classes.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Germanic from haïr, meaning to hate
hateful evil awful atrocious odious
abominable totally reprehensible
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• Word intrinsic
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation in-trin-sik, -zik
• Origins
• Related Forms intrinsically (adverb)
• Sentence Not only did the gold ring with 7
  half-carat diamonds have intrinsic value because
  of the gems and precious metal, it also was
  meaningful to Umkulthoum because it had belonged
  to her great-grandmother.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Latin int(e) (inside or within) sequi
(to follow)
1 belonging to something by its very nature
inherent 2 naturally part of something
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• Word Transgress
• Part of speech Verb
• Pronunciation trans-gres, tranz-
• Origins
• Related Forms transgression (noun)
  transgressive (adjective) transgressively
  (adverb) transgressor (noun)
• Sentence Now that you know you are not allowed
  to wear hats, if you choose to transgress the
  rule, your consequence will be to have your hat
  taken away.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Latin trans (across) gress (to go)
1. to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.
offend sin. 2. to pass over or go beyond (a
limit, boundary, etc.) to transgress bounds of
prudence. 3. to go beyond the limits imposed by
(a law, command, etc.) violate infringe to
transgress the will of God.
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• Word Mitigate
• Part of speech Verb
• Pronunciation mit-i-geyt
• Origins
• Related Forms mitigation (noun) mitigator
  (noun) mitigable (adjective)
• Sentence She couldnt eliminate the sound of the
  girls screams, but Umkulthoum was able to
  mitigate them by putting in her ear buds and
  turning up the music.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Latin Mit (mild, soft, gentle) agere (to
do, to make, to cause to do)
1. to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath,
grief, harshness, or pain moderate. 2. to make
less severe to mitigate a punishment. 3. to
make (a person, one's state of mind, disposition,
etc.) milder or more gentle mollify appease.
4. to become milder lessen in severity.
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• Word Provocative
• Part of speech Adjective
• Pronunciation pruh-vok-uh-tiv
• Origins
• Related Forms provocatively (adverb)
  provocativeness (noun) provocation (noun)
  provoke (verb)
• Predicted Definition
• Sentence Hoping to get her rival suspended for
  starting a fight, Umkulthoum used provocative
  language to say that Cindy-Lous mother was a
  harlot.
• Definition

Latin pro (in favor of) vocare (to call
out)
Tending or serving to provoke inciting, stimulati
ng, irritating, or vexing.
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• Word Irrevocable
• Part of speech Adjective
• Pronunciation ih-rev-uh-kuh-buh l
• Origins
• Related Forms irrevocably (adverb)
  irrevocability (noun) irrevocableness (noun) to
  revoke (verb)
• Sentence No matter how much he may have wanted
  to take it back, John Proctors affair with
  Abigail Williams was irrevocable.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Latin ir (not) re (again) vocare (to call)
able (capable of)
not to be revoked or recalled unable to be repeal
ed or annulled unalterable an irrevocable decree
.
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• Word stringent
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation strin-juh nt
• Origins
• Related Forms stringently (adverb)
• Sentence When she moved back home after having
  lived in an apartment of her own during her
  freshman year of college, Umkulthoum found the
  restrictions of a 9 pm curfew and having to call
  her parents every time she drove somewhere to be
  too stringent, so she moved out again
  immediately.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Latin from stringere (to draw tight)
rigorously binding or exacting strict severe
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• Word conducive
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation kuh n-doo-siv
• Origins
• Related Forms conduct (verb) (not necessarily
  conduct (noun))
• Sentence Neither my older brothers stereo
  thumping at full blast nor my parents arguing
  loudly in the next room were conducive to my
  efforts to study for the SAT.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition

Latin con (together with) ducere (to lead)
tending to produce conducing contributive
helpful favorable (usually followed by to)
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• Word slovenly
• Part of speech adjective or adverb
• Pronunciation sluhv-uh n-lee
• Origins
• --Dutch slof (careless)
• Related Forms slovenliness (noun)
• Sentence When the manager of the company saw the
  young womans torn jeans, chewed fingernails, and
  hair that looked like a rats nest, he told her
  she was too slovenly to work for his company and
  that she should come back when she knew how to
  keep clean.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• untidy or unclean in appearance or habits.
  (adjective)
• in an untidy, careless, or slipshod manner.
  (adverb)

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• Word disconsolate
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation dis-kon-suh-lit
• Origins
• --Latin dis (not) con (with) solari
  (to soothe or comfort)
• Related Forms disconsolately (adverb) console
  (verb)
• Sentence No matter what her friends and family
  did to cheer her up, Umkulthoum was disconsolate
  as she saw the E on the paper, which also meant
  she would fail the class and be unable to
  graduate with her friends.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• without consolation or solace hopelessly
  unhappy inconsolable cheerless gloomy
  heartbroken dejected sad, melancholy,
  sorrowful, miserable

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• Word infraction
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation in-frak-shuh n
• Origins
• -- in (to, toward) frag/frang (to
  break/bend/weaken) -ion (suffix making an adj
  or a verb into a noun)
• Related Forms
• Sentence When Umkulthoum was charged with a
  traffic infraction, she fought the ticket,
  claiming it wasnt illegal to drive with her
  feet.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --a breach a violation an infringement an
  offence

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• Word tortuous
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation tawr-choo-uh s
• Origins
• --Latin Tortu (a twisting)
• Related Forms tortuously (adverb)
• Sentence When Umkulthoum tried to find where the
  drug cartels had hidden their money in over a
  dozen different banks using 100 fake companies,
  she found that the trail of the money was too
  tortuous to follow.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• 1 full of twists, turns, or bends twisting,
  winding, or crooked a tortuous path.
• 2 not direct or straightforward, as in procedure
  or speech intricate circuitous tortuous
  negotiations lasting for months.

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• Word archetype
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation ahr-ki-tahyp
• Origins
• --Greek archi (first, original, prior)
  tupos (image)
• Related Forms archetypal, archetypical
  (adjectives) archetypally, archetypically
  (adverbs)
• Sentence The tale of Cinderella is the first
  known rags-to-riches story, which makes it the
  archetype on which all other rags-to-riches
  stories have been based.
• Snow Whites evil step-mother was the archetype
  of the villainess, and every Disney villainess
  after her has simply been an imitation.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --the original pattern or model from which all
  things of the same kind are copied or on which
  they are based a model or first form prototype

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• Word disseminate
• Part of speech Verb
• Pronunciation dih-sem-uh-neyt
• Origins
• --Latin dis (away apart asunder)
  seminare (to sow (to plant))
• Related Forms dissemination (noun)
• Sentence The Center for Disease Control tried to
  disseminate information about the Zombie
  Apocalypse by every means they could, including
  Twitter, Instagram, text message, news broadcast,
  and radio announcements, so that they could get
  the word out to everyone.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing
  seed promulgate extensively broadcast
  disperse to disseminate information about
  preventive medicine.

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• Word elicit
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation ih-lis-it
• Origins
• --Latin lici (to lure or draw out)
• Related Forms elicitation (noun)
• Sentence Umkulthoum was tired of being ignored,
  so to elicit a response from her parents, she set
  her sisters bed on fire, tied the dog to the
  cat, and called in to the police saying she had
  been kidnapped.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to draw out, bring out, or bring forth evoke

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• Word grisly
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation griz-lee
• Origins
• --Old High German grisenlih
• Related Forms grisliness
• Sentence Umkulthoum loved the Saw movies because
  of their grisly scenes of torture, blood, and
  dismembered corpses.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --causing a shudder or feeling of horror or
  dread horrible gruesome ghastly a grisly
  murder.

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• Word contingent
• Part of speech adjective noun
• Pronunciation kuh n-tin-juh nt
• Origins
• --Latin con (with) tangere (to touch)
• Related Forms contingency (noun)
• Sentence
• --1. Trevor knew his survival was contingent
  upon his being able to hold his breath long
  enough to convince Umkulthoum he had drowned.
• --2. The Dearborn teachers union sent a small
  contingent of members to Lansing to argue on
  behalf of the all the union members who couldnt
  make the meetings.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --1. adj. dependent for existence, occurrence,
  character, etc., on something not yet certain
  conditional (often followed by on  or upon  )
  Our plans are contingent on the weather.

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• Word reverberate
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation ri-vur-buh-reyt
• Origins
• --Latin re (again back) verberare (to
  beat or strike (from verber (to lash)))
• Related Forms reverberation (noun)
• Sentence Umkulthoum didnt know what she enjoyed
  more, hearing her victim scream, or hearing those
  screams reverberate off the walls over and over
  and over.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to reecho or resound Her singing reverberated
  through the house.

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• Word salient
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation sey-lee-uh nt
• Origins
• --Latin Salire (to jump or to spring)
• Related Forms saliently (adverb)
• Sentence Among the more salient parts of
  Umkulthoums speech to her victim describing
  exactly how Umkulthoum intended to torture her
  were that she intended to sever all of the girls
  appendages and that the girl would be alive and
  conscious the entire time.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --prominent, conspicuous, sticking out,
  projecting, jumping, leaping The most salient
  feature of the car was its 7000 price tag.

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• Word impassive
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation im-pas-iv
• Origins
• --Latin im (not) passive (submissive,
  based on to submit)
• --NOTE THE PARTS MEAN THE OPPOSITE OF THE
  WORD!
• Related Forms impassively (adverb)
  impassiveness (noun)
• Sentence Cindy Lou would have been less
  terrified as she was being stalked if
  Umkulthoums face had been angry or joyous or
  scared, but instead, Umkulthoum looked impassive,
  and that was the scariest look of all.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --without emotion apathetic unmoved calm
  serene emotionless indifferent tranquil
  composed

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• Word callow
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation kal-oh
• Origins
• --German Kaal (bald think of a young bird
  whose feathers have not grown in)
• Related Forms callowness
• Sentence The callow students continually made
  farting noises, dropped their pencils, and faked
  sneezing while the teacher tried to teach.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --immature or inexperienced a callow youth.

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• Word berate
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation bih-reyt
• Origins
• --Middle English be- (thoroughly) and Old
  French reter (to accuse or blame)
• Related Forms
• Sentence If mom finds out that you havent done
  17 homework assignments in a row, she will berate
  you for hours, and who wants to listen to that?
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to scold rebuke Her mom berated her in
  Walmart.

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• Word hypothetical
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation hahy-puh-thet-i-kuh l
• Origins
• --Greek hypo (under) thesis (a setting
  down something set down)
• Related Forms hypothetically (adverb)
  hypothesis (noun)
• Sentence One reason Umkulthoum was such a
  successful criminal was that she was always
  prepared for every hypothetical situation she may
  encounter, just in case that hypothetical
  situation ever became real.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition assumed or thought to exist
  conditional existing only as an idea or concept
  supposed

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• Word succinct
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation suh k-singkt
• Origins
• Latin succinctus (to gather)
• Related Forms succinctly (adverb) succinctness
  (noun)
• Sentence Rather than dragging out the news,
  Umkulthoum was succinct Im leaving you.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --expressed in few words concise terse.

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• Word extricate
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation ek-stri-keyt
• Origins
• --Latin ex (out of) and tricae
  (perplexities, hinderances)
• Related Forms
• Sentence As Umkulthoum looked at the snarled
  mess of knotted up fishing lines, she sighed
  thinking of the hours it was going to take to
  extricate her line from all of the other lines.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to free or release from entanglement
  disengage

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• Word absolve
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation ab-zolv
• Origins
• --Latin ab (away from) solvere (to
  loosen)
• Related Forms Absolution (noun)
• Sentence Umkulthoum first went to talk to the
  priest at confession so that God would absolve
  her, and then she went to a lawyer and hoped that
  the jury would absolve her as well.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to release from blame, sin, punishment,
  obligation, or responsibility to pronounce not
  guilty acquit pardon

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• Word inadvertent
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation in-uh d-vur-tnt
• Origins
• --Latin in (not) ad (to/towards) vert
  (to turn to)
• Related Forms inadvertently (adverb)
• Sentence Although she would have liked to have
  taken credit for killing him, Trevors death when
  Umkulthoum backed over him with her truck as he
  lay under it to cut her brake lines was truly
  inadvertent.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --unintentional characterized by lack of
  attention inattentive thoughtless, careless,
  negligent.

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• Word astute
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation uh-stoot
• Origins
• --Latin Astutus (clever, sly, cunning)
• Related Forms astutely (adverb) astuteness
  (noun)
• Sentence The astute detective knew Umkulthoum
  was the best suspect based on smelling her
  perfume on the body and then again when he
  interviewed Umkulthoum.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --having insight or acumen perceptive shrewd
  clever cunning smart quick (mentally)

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• Word vicarious
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation vahy-kair-ee-uh s
• Origins
• --Latin Vicarius (interchange alternation)
• Related Forms vicariously (adverb)
• Sentence Although she didnt kill anyone
  herself, Umkulthoums sister felt a vicarious
  thrill watching her sister disembowel victim
  after victim.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --performed, exercised, received, or suffered in
  place of another felt or enjoyed through
  imagined participation in the experience of others

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• Word accentuate
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation ak-sen-choo-eyt
• Origins
• --Latin Accentus (Speaking tone)
• Related Forms
• Sentence Most of Mr. Palises sentences tend to
  accentuate Umkulthoums darker side, without
  mentioning her charitable qualities at all.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to emphasize or give prominence to to stress

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• Word transmute
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation tranz-myoot
• Origins
• --Latin trans (across) mutare (change)
• Related Forms transmutable (adjective)
  transmutation (noun) transmutability (noun)
• Sentence Some species of frogs have been known
  to transmute their gender from female to male
  when there arent enough males around in the
  breeding population.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to change from one nature, substance, form, or
  condition into another transform.

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• Word transient
• Part of speech adjective noun
• Pronunciation tran-zee-uh nt
• Origins
• --Latin trans (to go across) -ent/ant
  (existing in a condition)
• Related Forms transiently (adverb)
• Sentence Umkulthoum preferred to kidnap
  transients, since they didnt stay in town long
  enough to make friends who would miss them. As
  she tortured them, she would always reassure
  them, saying that the pain they were experiencing
  was transient and it would all be over soon.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• 1 adjective not lasting, not enduring, or not
  permanent transitory lasting only a short time
  existing briefly temporary staying only a short
  time
• 2 noun a person or thing that is transient,
  especially a temporary guest, boarder, laborer,
  or the like.

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• Word infer
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation in-fur
• Origins
• --Latin in ferre (to bring, carry)
• Related Forms inference (noun)
• Sentence Based on the collection of knives on
  the walls, the decomposing skeletons rotting in
  alcoves, and the blood stains on the ceiling, it
  was easy for Umkulthoums latest victim to infer
  that he was going to die in that basement.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to derive by reasoning conclude or judge from
  premises or evidence to guess speculate
  surmise.

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• Word autonomy
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation aw-ton-uh-mee
• Origins
• --Greek auto (self own) nom (law
  custom) -y (characterized by or inclined to)
• Related Forms autonomous (adjective)
• Sentence As children age, they want more
  autonomy, so frequently they rebel against their
  parents rules, which, unfortunately for them,
  just proves to their parents that they deserve
  less autonomy and not more.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --independence or freedom the right or state of
  self-government, especially when limited freedom
  to determine one's own actions, behavior, etc .

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• Word implicit
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation im-plis-it
• Origins
• --Latin Im (in) plicare (to fold)
• Related Forms implicitly (adverb), imply (verb)
• Sentence While they never wrote it down or spoke
  of it, Umkulthoum and her sister had an implicit
  agreement that whoever kidnapped their victim got
  to deliver the killing blow when the time was
  right.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --Implied, rather than directly stated hinted
  at understood without being spoken or written.

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• Word immutable
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation ih-myoo-tuh-buh l
• Origins
• --Latin im (not) mutare (to change)
  -able (capable of)
• Related Forms immutably (adverb)
• Sentence No matter how much Trevors surgeons
  worked to reattach his limbs, the immutable fact
  was that Umkulthoum had turned him into a
  quadriplegic.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --not mutable unchangeable changeless.

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• Word desecrate
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation des-i-kreyt
• Origins
• --Latin de (do the opposite of) sacer
  (holy)
• Related Forms desecration (noun)
• Sentence Umkulthoum was a violent sociopath with
  hardly any morals, but even she refused to
  desecrate any mosques, churches, or synagogues by
  dumping the bodies of her victims inside these
  holy buildings.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to violate or outrage the sacred character of
  (an object or place) by destructive, blasphemous,
  or sacrilegious action to disrespect, defile,
  deface, or dishonor something holy or sacred.

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• Word subservient
• Part of speech adj
• Pronunciation suh b-sur-vee-uh nt
• Origins
• --Latin sub (under) servire (to serve)
• Related Forms subservience (noun) subserviently
  (adverb)
• Sentence Umkulthoums sister was the perfect
  assistant for Umkulthoum because she was so
  subservient, running immediately to do what
  Umkulthoum told her and saying, yes, sister!
  with a smile and a bow.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --1. serving or acting in a subordinate
  capacity subordinate.
• --2. servile excessively submissive obsequious

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• Word brusque
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation bruhsk
• Origins
• --Italian brusco (short, rough, tart)
• Related Forms brusquely
• Sentence When the reporter showed up at
  Umkulthoums door following the reports that
  Trevor had last been seen at her house,
  Umkulthoum gave a brusque no to his questions
  and slammed the door in his face.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --abrupt in manner blunt rough terse short
  curt unceremonious

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• Word equitable
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation ek-wi-tuh-buh l
• Origins
• --French équité (equal) -able (capable of
  (Latin))
• Related Forms equitability (noun), equitableness
  (noun) equitably (adverb)
• Sentence Umkulthoum and her sister agreed that
  the only equitable way to divide up the trophies
  they kept from their victims was to give
  Umkulthoum all the left ears, hands, feet, and
  eyeballs and give her sister all the right ears,
  hands, feet, and eyeballs.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --1. Equal, just, fair, right, reasonable
• --2. Impartial, proper, unbiased

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• Word sleazy
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation slee-zee
• Origins
• --unknown
• Related Forms sleaze (noun) sleaziness (noun)
  sleazily (adverb)
• Sentence
• --The NHL fined the player for his sleazy
  tactics when he purposely kicked with his ice
  skate at the opposing goalies face. His sleazy
  excuse was that he tripped, but it was obvious
  that he did it on purpose. After he lost his
  job, the player ended up living in a sleazy hotel
  where the toilets didnt work and he got bed
  bugs.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• 1. contemptibly low, mean, or disreputable
  sleazy politics.
• 2. squalid sordid filthy dilapidated a
  sleazy hotel.

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• Word epitome
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation ih-pit-uh-mee
• Origins
• --Greek epi (above) -tome (a slice or a
  cut)
• Related Forms epitomize (verb)
• Sentence Umkulthoum was the epitome of a
  predator patient, clever, careful, and ruthless.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --a person or thing that is typical of or
  possesses to a high degree the features of a
  whole class. He is the epitome of goodness
• --a condensed account, especially of a literary
  work abstract.

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• Word propensity
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation pruh-pen-si-tee
• Origins
• --Latin Pro (In favor of) Pend (To hang
  from) ity (Indicating a state or condition)
• Related Forms
• Sentence The teacher was not hired into the
  district after the new principal discovered the
  teacher had a propensity for writing excessively
  violent grammar exercises.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --A natural inclination or tendency an innate
  favorability for something A propensity to curse

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• Word coalition
• Part of speech Noun
• Pronunciation koh-uh-lish-uh n
• Origins
• --Latin co (with) alere (to nourish or
  make grow)
• Related Forms coalesce (verb -- to grow
  together)
• Sentence When they began to suspect Umkulthoum
  was a serial killer, and the police wouldnt do
  anything, her neighbors formed a coalition
  against her, surrounding her house while carrying
  pitchforks and torches.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --a combination or alliance, especially a
  temporary one between persons, factions, states,
  etc., frequently for a specific reason a
  grouping

49

• Word redundant
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation ri-duhn-duh nt
• Origins
• --Latin re (again) undare (to flow to
  surge) -ant (characterized by or serving in a
  capacity of)
• Related Forms redundancy (noun)
• Sentence The memo from the Redundant Department
  Department was needlessly repetitive, said the
  same thing over and over, and repeated itself for
  no good reason.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --Unnecessary repetition extra excessive
  superfluous
• --Duplicated as a precaution against failure

50

• Word blatant
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation bleyt-nt
• Origins
• --Latin blatire (To babble) -ant
  (characterized by or serving in a capacity of)
• Related Forms blatantly (adverb) blatantness
  (noun)
• Sentence During her trial, Umkulthoums lack of
  sorrow over Trevors grisly death was blatant as
  she laughed while the prosecuting attorney showed
  the pictures of his bloody corpse.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• brazenly obvious flagrant clear easily
  distinguishable

51

• Word exude
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation ig-zood, ik-sood
• Origins
• Latin ex (out) sudare (to sweat)
• Related Forms
• Sentence As Trevor watched Umkulthoum scrape
  their victims back with a rusty cheese grater,
  he knew that as soon as the victim began to exude
  blood, Umkulthoum would exude joy.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --To come out gradually in drops, as sweat emit
  through pores or small openings.
• --To project or display conspicuously or
  abundantly radiate to exude cheerfulness.

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• Word caricature
• Part of speech noun verb
• Pronunciation kar-i-kuh-cher
• Origins
• --Latin Caricare (loaded distorted)
• Related Forms
• Sentence While some of the pictures hung up in
  his room were good representations of Mr. Palise,
  most of them were caricatures designed to draw
  attention to his short stature.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --a picture, description, etc., ludicrously
  exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of
  persons or things.
• --any imitation or copy so distorted or inferior
  as to be ludicrous.
• --to make a caricature of represent in
  caricature.

53

• Word interloper
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation in-ter-loh-per
• Origins
• --Latin Inter (between, among as in
  interstate highway)
• --Dutch loopen (to run)
• Related Forms
• Sentence After they found the lone FBI agent
  searching their house without a warrant,
  Umkulthoum and her sister smiled, thinking about
  all the things they would do to the interloper.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --a person who interferes or meddles in the
  affairs of others trespasser

54

• Word novice
• Part of speech noun
• Pronunciation nov-is
• Origins
• Latin Novus (new)
• Related Forms novitiate (noun)
• Sentence While Umkulthoum was an expert at
  disemboweling the goats used in her ritual
  sacrifices, her sister was still a novice and
  frequently destroyed the organs as she removed
  them.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --a person who is new to the circumstances,
  work, etc., in which he or she is placed
  beginner tyro newcomer neophyte.

55

• Word intercede
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation in-ter-seed
• Origins
• --Latin inter (between among) cedere (to
  move)
• Related Forms
• Sentence Because she had fallen in love with
  Trevor, Umkulthoums sister tried to intercede on
  his behalf and convince Umkulthoum not to kill
  him, but he was sacrificed anyway.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to act on behalf of someone in difficulty or
  trouble, as by pleading or petition to intervene
• --to attempt to reconcile differences between
  two people or groups mediate.

56

• Word surmise
• Part of speech verb noun
• Pronunciation ser-mahyz
• Origins
• --Latin sur/super (over above)
  mit(tere) (to send)
• Related Forms
• Sentence Following the disappearance of the
  fourth homeless person from the park across from
  Umkulthoums goat ranch, the lead detective began
  to surmise that Umkulthoum had something to do
  with the disappearances.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• 1. v. To conjecture or guess.
• 2. n. A conjecture or guess.

57

• Word contrive
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation kuh n-trahyv
• Origins
• --Old French Con (with) trover (To find)
• Related Forms contrived (adjective)
• Sentence When Umkulthoums sister fell in love
  with Trevor, Umkulthoum worried that her sister
  would contrive a way for him to escape, so she
  arranged to back over him with her truck.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to devise to plan to scheme to invent to
  plot

58

• Word deplete
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation dih-pleet
• Origins
• --Latin de (negation removal separation)
  plere (to fill)
• Related Forms depletable (adjective)
  depletion (noun)
• Sentence Umkulthoum enjoyed killing in many
  ways, but her favorite way was to deplete her
  victims blood by cutting off their fingers and
  toes one at a time with a cigar cutter.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance
  or supply of use up, drain, reduce, lessen

59

• Word corroborate
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation kuh-rob-uh-reyt
• Origins
• --Latin com (with) roborare (oak
  ?strength(en)) -ate (suffix used to make a
  verb)
• Related Forms corroborative (noun)
• Sentence Umkulthoum never worried about being
  placed at the scene of one of her murders,
  because she knew she could always count on her
  sister to corroborate whatever story she told the
  detectives about where she was when the murders
  occurred.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to make more certain to confirm to
  strengthen

60

• Word desist
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation dih-sist
• Origins
• --Latin de (negation removal separation)
  sistere (to stand or to place)
• Related Forms
• Sentence After he was reported for writing
  grisly grammar exercises, the teacher was ordered
  to desist immediately, but his students rebelled
  and staged a sit-in until the principal let him
  continue with his blood-thirsty English.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --To cease to stop to refrain to abstain

61

• Word palpable
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation pal-puh-buh l
• Origins
• --Latin palpa (to touch) able (capable of
  being)
• Related Forms palpability (noun) palpably
  (adverb)
• Sentence As the men in the bunkhouse waited for
  Carlson to shoot Candys dog, the tension was so
  thick and heavy in the room that it was almost
  palpable
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --1. readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived,
  etc. obvious evident blatant
• --2. able to be touched tangible

62

• Word covert
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation koh-vert
• Origins
• --Latin co (together with) ob
  (reversely inversely) aperire (to open)
• Related Forms covertly (adverb)
• Sentence When Umkulthoum discovered that Trevor
  was a covert operative of the FBI, she knew she
  would have to be careful to make his death look
  inadvertent.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --concealed secret disguised.

63

• Word susceptible
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation suh-sep-tuh-buh l
• Origins
• --Latin sus (sub (under)) capere (to
  capture) ible (capable of)
• Related Forms susceptibleness (noun)
• Sentence Umkulthoum knew Trevor was susceptible
  to a woman in distress, so she pretended to have
  a flat tire in order to lure him under her truck.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --capable of being affected by something (an
  emotion, a treatment, a substance (kryptonite),
  etc.) (susceptible to colds, susceptible to
  compliments, susceptible to injury, etc)

64

• Word tenuous
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation ten-yoo-uh s
• Origins
• --Latin Tenu- (thin) ous (characterized
  by)
• Related Forms tenuously (adverb), tenuousness
  (noun)
• Sentence Finally, after 12 hours of torture, as
  she watched Umkulthoum remove the skin from her
  sister Megan with a vegetable peeler, Cindy-Lou
  Freebush lost her already tenuous grasp on her
  self-control and she screamed until her throat
  bled.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --Thin, slender, weak, vague, unsubstantial

65

• Word resilient
• Part of speech adjective
• Pronunciation ri-zil-yuh nt
• Origins
• Latin re (again) salire (to leap to
  jump) ent/ant (existing in a condition)
• Related Forms resiliently (adverb)
• Sentence Umkulthoum knew that while her sister
  would be angry at first about Trevors murder,
  their relationship was resilient enough to
  survive Trevors death.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --recovering readily from illness, depression,
  adversity, or the like buoyant flexible

66

• Word curtail
• Part of speech verb
• Pronunciation ker-teyl
• Origins
• --Middle French Curtal (short) Middle
  English taillen (to cut)
• Related Forms
• Sentence After the economy collapsed, buying
  goats became too expensive and Umkulthoum had to
  curtail her spending finding people to sacrifice
  was cheaper and easier.
• Predicted Definition
• Definition
• --to cut off to cut short to abridge to
  diminish to reduce