Monday, August 30, 2010

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vocabulary

keep sakes:

expatriate: someone who lives in a foreign country

sympathy: a feeling of support for someone who is sad, hurt, lonely, etc.

diction:the way in which someone pronounce

envious: wishing that you had someone else qualities.

posture: the position you hold your body in when you sit or stand

sarcasm: a way of speaking or writing in which you say the opposite of what you really mean in order to make an unkind joke or to show that you are annoyed

hinder: to make it difficult for someone to do something

connotation: an idea or a feeling that a word makes you think of, in addition to its basic meaning

denotation : the thing that is actually described by a word, rather than the feelings or ideas it suggests

define : to explain the exact meaning of a particular word or idea

associate : if you associate two people or things, you see that they are connected in some way

subtle : not easily noticed unless you pay careful attention

broad : very wide or including many different kinds of things or people

tentative : not definite or certain

irony : the use of words that are the opposite of what you really mean, in order to be amusing or show that you are annoyed

apocalypse : a dangerous situation that results in great destruction, death, or harm

abolitionist : someone who wants to end a system or law

vandalism : the crime of deliberately damaging things, especially public property

glittered
sheen
milling
barracks
sentries
dozing
lather
spent
identical
fetched
rebel
chaise
riffraff
considerate
humiliated
scold
generous
rig
wagon
molestation
whig
slurred
rut
turbulent
tinder
tidy
fatal
hollowed out
family tree genealogy
kin relative
shutters

snare

yokels

Yankees

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