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Immaculate

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Perfectly clean

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Gloat

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To feel or express delight or self-satisfaction.

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Curtail

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Cut short or reduce.

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Covert

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Secret

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Demise

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Death

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Lucrative

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Profitable, well-paying

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Mandatory

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Required

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Quest

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A search, pursuit

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Contemporary

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Modern, up-to-date

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Qualm

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An uneasy feeling about how right proper a particular is..

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Garble

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To mix up or confuse (as a story or message); scramble.

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Blight

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Something that weakens, damages or destroys.

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Plagiarism

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Using someone else’s writing or ideas as one’s own

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Contrive

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Plan cleverly ; think up

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Retaliate

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To return an injury for an injury, payback; revenge

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Blatant

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Very obvious ; often offensively so

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Gaunt

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Thin and bony

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Squander

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To waste ; spend or use foolishly

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Incentive

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Something that moves one to take action or work harder ; a motivation

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Disgress

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To go off subject. To turn aside, or stray, especially from the main topic in speaking of writing.

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Rigor

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A great hardship or difficulty ; harshness ; severity

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Devastate

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To upset deeply ; overwhelm

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Succumb

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To give in ; stop resisting

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Indispensable

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Necessary

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Incorporate

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To unite into a single whole ; combine

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Intermittent

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Starting and stopping from time to time ; off-and-on

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Cynic

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A person who believes the worst of people’s behavior motives ; someone who believes people are motivated only by selfishness

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Intrinsic

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Fundamental. Belonging to a person or thing by it’s very nature (and thus not dependent on circumstances); built-in.

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Infamous

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Having a very bad reputation ; widely known for being vicious, criminal, or deserving of contempt

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Benefactor

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A person or organization that gives help, especially financial aid

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Virile

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Manly ; masculine

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Speculate

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To guess. To come up with ideas or theories about a subject ; theorize

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Alleviate

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To relieve ; make easier to endure

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Revulsion

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Hatred, great disgust or distaste.

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Aspire

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To strongly desire; to be ambitious (to do something or to get something).

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Deficit

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A shortage ; a lack (in amount)

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Abstain

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To hold oneself back from something ; refrain

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Benevolent

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Showing kindness ; charitable

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Agnostic

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A person who believes we cannot know wether or not there is a god

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Diversion

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An amusement or pastime ; anything that relaxes or amuses

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Affiliate

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To associate ; join

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Dissent

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Opposition or disagreement

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Conversely

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In an opposite manner; in an altogether different way. In contrast

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Charisma

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The quality of a leader which captures great popular devotion ; personal appeal; charm

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Prevalent

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Widespread; common

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Contend

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To state to be so; claim; affirm; to declare

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Proponent

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Someone who supports a cause

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Poignant

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Emotionally moving; touching

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Traumatic

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Causing painful emotion, with possible long-lasting psychological effects

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Extrovert

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An outgoing, sociable person

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Phrase with qualm

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He had no qualms about having kids

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Phrase with garble

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The teacher garbled the student papers, so no one had they’re paper.

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Phrase with gloat

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After their Olympic win, they gloated to the losing team.

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Phrase with blight

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Atomic bombs is a blight in war.

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Phrase with plagiarism

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Charlotte was accused of plagiarism on her paper on World War II.

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Phrase with contrive

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The class contrived a way to get more time to study for their exam.

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Phrase with mandatory

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Uniforms are mandatory on school territory.

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Phrase with retaliate

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When Jackie stole Marjorie’s lunchbox, she retaliated by stealing her pencil case.

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Phrase with blatant

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It was blatant that the student did not study for the test.

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Phrase with immaculate

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Lories locker was immaculate.

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Phrase with gaunt

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Eating disorders can lead to a gaunt body.

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Phrase with squander

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He squandered his time by trying to throw spitballs at his teachers.

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Phrase with curtail

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I have to curtail my time watching T.V shows to study more.

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Phrase with incentive

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Summer is my incentive to finish the school year.

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Phrase with disgress

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I digressed in my essay and in consequence, I failed

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Phrase with rigor

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The rigor of having three kids can cause anxiety attacks.

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Phrase with devastate

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My sister was devastated to know that there was not going to be an 11th season of her favorite T.V show.

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Phrase with succumb

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Nathalie succumbed to her children’s begging and bought them ice cream.

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Phrase with indispensable

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It is indispensable to have a pen for the final exam.

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Phrase with incorporate

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The restaurant incorporated Chinese meals in their menu.

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Intermittent

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Intermittent studying will not get you good grades.

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Phrase with covert

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The society is so covert, that only ten people knows it exists.

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Phrase with cynic

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My brother is cynic, since he almost drowned and no one helped him.

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Phrase with intrinsic

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Concentration is intrinsic to good studying.

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Phrase with infamous

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George is infamous since he was seen pushing someone out of a car.

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Phrase with benefactor

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UNICEF is a benefactor for people in underdeveloped countries.

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Phrase with virile

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His mustache makes him look virile.

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Phrase with demise

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Drugs caused the demise of multiple people.

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Phrase with speculate

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Conspiracy groups often speculate about the alien race.

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Phrase with alleviate

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To alleviate his pain of his broken leg, he took medication.

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Phrase with revulsion

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I feel great revulsion for cheaters.

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Phrase with aspire

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There is a lot of aspiring actresses in Los Angeles.

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Phrase with lucrative

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The mans goal was not to create a lucrative business, but one who could help the people.

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Phrase with deficit

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There is a deficit of apples, so you can buy maximum five per person.

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Phrase with abstain

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I abstained myself from pointing out the errors in my friends text to not upset him.

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Phrase with benevolent

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People who are benevolent have a better self esteem.

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Phrase with agnostic

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My family are believers, but I’m agnostic

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Phrase with diversion

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You need a diversion from your schoolwork.

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Phrase with affiliate

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She affiliated her self with a big company to have better publicity.

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Phrase with dissent

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Her mother expressed dissent on the length of her skirt.

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Phrase with conversely

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Mia likes cats. Conversely, Jake loves dogs.

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Phrase with charisma

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Because of is charisma he won the school election.

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Phrase with quest

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We are on a quest to finding a time machine.

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Phrase with prevalent

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iPhones are prevalent in our society.

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Phrase with contend

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He contented that Julia was at practice Monday.

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Phrase with contemporary

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Jules likes apartment which are more contemporary.

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Phrase with proponent

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Celia is a proponent against animal cruelty.

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Phrase with poignant

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Michael made a poignant speech of how he would bring back his dad if he could.

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Phrase with traumatic

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Getting hit by a car is a traumatic event.

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Phrase with extrovert

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Performers are usually extrovert people.

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What Is a dependent clause?

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The groups of word that can’t stand on his own.

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What is an Independent clause?

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The group of words that can be an ok grammatical phrase.

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What is a comma splice?

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A phrase with two independents clauses separated by a comma.

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What is a coordinating junction?

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When you connect two independents clauses you have to put a coordinating junction.
For
And
Nor
But
Or 
Yet
So
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Why is there a comma in this sentence: To get a good grade, you must complete all your assignments.

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You have to use a comma after an introductory phrase, prepositional phrase, or dependent clause.

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Where to we put commas?

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  1. Use a comma after an introductory phrase, prepositional phrase, and dependent clause.
  2. Use a comma to separate element in a series.
  3. Use a comma to separate nonessential elements from a sentence.
  4. Use a comma between coordinate adjectives (adjective that are reversible and we can put and between).
  5. Use a comma after a transitional element (however, therefore, also, and etc).
  6. Use a comma with quoted words.
  7. Use a comma in a date.
  8. Use a comma in numbers.
  9. Use a comma in a personal title.
  10. Use a comma to separate a city name from the state, province, country.

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