7th Vocabulary Deck For Language Arts Flashcards

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A model or pattern of excellence
Sounds like: pair of guns
A paragon pair of guns

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Paragon
( PAIR AH GONE)
Noun

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A pattern that serves as a model or example
Sounds like: pair of dimes
A paradigm of the new pair of dimes

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Paradigm
(PAIR AH DIME)
Noun

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A conference; especially between enemy’s
Sounds like: party
The party turned into a parley

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Parley
(PAHR LEE)
Noun

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The leader of a family or tribe
Sounds like: pastry art
The patriarchs specially is pastry art

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Patriarch
(PAY TREE AHRK)
Noun

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An inheritance from a father or an ancestor;anything inherited
Sounds like: pats money
Pats money is his patrimony

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Patrimony
(PA THRIH MOHAMMED NÉE)
Noun

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A sight or trilling sin, a minor defense
Sounds like: armadillo
Norm thought running over an armadillo was a peccadillo

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Peccadillo
(PEAK AH DILL OH)
Noun

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Consisting or relating to money
Sounds like: peculiar dairy
A pecuniary peculiar dairy

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Pecuniary
(PI KYOO NÉE ER EE)
Adjective

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Ordinary, moving on foot
Sounds like: pedestrians
Pedestrian pedestrians

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Pedestrian
(PEH DES TREE AHN)
Adjective

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Upright or vertical, being right, angles to the plane of the horizon
Sounds like: pen
The pen is perpendicular to the paper

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Perpendicular
(PUR PEN DIK YU LER)
Adjective

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To think of or represent as having human qualities
Sounds like: person fly
In her poem she attempts to personify death

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Personify
(PER SAWN IH FYE
Verb

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