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Week 1 Flashcards

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Voracious

A

Desiring or consuming great quantities really hungry

When I didn’t have food at my house and I had to wait for my parents to get home to eat.

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Indiscriminate

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Choosing at random without careful selection

When buying clothes using my moms money

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Eminent

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High reputation, outstanding

Patrick Mahomes is an eminent role model I take my game after

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Steeped

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Soaked, drenched, saturated

I steeped my cookies in the milk

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Replete

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Completely filled or supplied with

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Imminent

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About to happen

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Abound

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To exist in great numbers

At 8:30 am on week days students abound school campus

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Technology

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Branch of knowledge dealing with engineering, applied science, etc.

I use technology in the form of my phone

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Prognosticate

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To predict or foretell a future event

I prognosticated that the chiefs would win Super Bowl LVII

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Automaton

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A robot; a mechanical “person”

I used to be scared of the Chuck E Cheese automaton

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Paradox

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A statement that at first seems to be absurd or self-contradictory but which may in fact turn out to be true

I did not do anything to my hair to make it curly

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Realm

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Special field of something or someone; kingdom

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Annals

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Historical records

The annals of Catalina island are public

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Compound

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To increase or add to

The Chiefs compounded the score of the Super Bowl when they scored with seconds remaining

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Tinge

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A trace, smattering, or slight degree

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Badger

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To pester, nag, annoy persistently

My mom badgers me to sleep early

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Implore

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To plead urgently for aid or mercy

The football player implored when he fractured his ankle

18
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Drudgery

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Unpleasant, dull, or hard work

Doing homework is a drudgery

19
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Interminable

A

Seemingly unending

Every school day is interminable

20
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Perceive

A

To understand, know, become aware of, to see

It’s hard to perceive the Casino in the fog

21
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Matron

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An older married woman

English 3-4 Vocab (6 decks)

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