Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Fall Vocab #5

venomous: malignant, spiteful
She had a venomous glare.

Stolid: unemotional, impassive
The New York Times use stolid words towards the play.

Hypnotized: to influence/ control
The speaker hypnotized the audience by his reasoning.

Suspended: to postpone
The student got suspended for fighting during school.

Transformed: to change its form
Iphones are transforming all the time.

Accuse: to charge with fault, offense, or crime
He got accused of murder today in court.

Anticipate:  to expect
The basketball player anticipated the pass.

Fringe:  an outer edge
The music world was described as fringe.

Melancholy:  a gloomy state of mind
The whole day he was in a melancholy mood.

Earnestly:  serious in intention, purpose, or effort
People describe her as earnest.

Dissolve:  to undo
It felt like his problems dissolved out of his life.

Aggravate:  to annoy/ irritate
The physics homework aggravated the student.

Illuminate:  to enlighten/ brighten
Her world was illuminated by his love.

Capillary:  to be connected as a part
Families are an example of capillary.

Proboscis:  trunk of an elephant
Proboscis are found on elephants.


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