Monday, October 3, 2016

Vocabulary fall list #5

  1. Venomous- full of malice or spite.
Ex. She replied with a venomous glance.
  1. Stolid-(of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.
Ex. During the fire everybody was panic but the firefighters were stolid.
  1. Hypnotized-produce a state of hypnosis in (someone).
Ex. A witness had been hypnotized to enhance his memory.
  1. Suspended-temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect.
Ex. Work on the dam was suspended.
  1. Transformed-make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.
Ex. Bumblebee transform into a Chevrolet Camaro.
  1. Accuse-charge (someone) with an offense or crime.
Ex. He was accused of murdering his wife's lover.
  1. Anticipate-regard as probable; expect or predict.
Ex. She anticipated scorn on her return to the theater.
  1. Fringe-not part of the mainstream; unconventional, peripheral, or extreme.
Ex Fringe theater show fringe movies.
  1. Melancholy-a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Ex. An air of melancholy surrounded him.
  1. Earnestly-implies having a purpose and being steadily and soberly eager in pursuing it
Ex. He was an earnest student.
  1. Dissolve-(with reference to a solid) become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.
Ex. Glucose dissolves easily in water.
  1. Aggravate-make (a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious.
Ex Military action would only aggravate the situation.
  1. illuminate-light up.
Ex. A flash of lightning illuminated the house.
  1. Capillary-Any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
Ex. His Capillary were wreck.
  1. Proboscis-the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.
Ex. The nose of a Elephant is mobile.

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