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20 Cards in this Set
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APPALL
APPALLING |
Verb: To cause horror, shock, or dismay.
Adj. - Causing shock and horror. |
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DEJECTED
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Adj.: Discouraged; low in spirits.
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DEPEND
DEPENDABLE |
Verb: 1. To rely on for support.
2. To be based on. Adj.: Reliable |
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DREARY
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Adj.: Sad and gloomy
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FANATIC
FANATICAL |
Noun: A person whose enthusiasm for a belif is extreme.
Adj.; Carrying an interest or enthusiam to extremes. |
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INVADE
INVASION |
Verb: 1. To enter by force in order to take over.
2. To intrude; to enter in great numbers. Noun: The act of invading. |
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ISOLATE
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Verb: To cut off from others.
ISOLATION - Noun: The condition of being isolated. ISOLATED - Adj.: Cut off from others. |
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OCCUPY
OCCUPATION |
Verb: 1. To live in; to take up.
2. To take over by force. Noun: 1. A person's job or profession. 2. A filling up of time or space. |
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REVEAL
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Verb: 1. To make known.
2. To bring into view. |
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ROUT
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Noun: A disorganized retreat from an attack; a total defeat.
Verb: To defeat completely. |
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SUSPECT
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Verb: 1. To think of as probably guilty.
2. To suppose that something is true. Noun: A person believed to be guilty. |
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TEMPORARY
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Adj.: Lasting or made to last for a short time.
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TERROR
TERRIFY |
Noun: Great Fear
Verb: To fill with terror or great fear. |
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TRAGIC
TRAGEDY |
Adj: Causing great sadness; terrible or dreadful.
Noun: 1. An event that causes great pain, suffering, or loss of life. 2. A play that ends sadly as the hero or heroine loses at the end of a great strggle. |
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SIMILIE
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A figure of speech comparing to unlike things. Like or as are use to compare.
My brother has a head like a pumpkin. |
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METAPHOR
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Metaphors are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. Does not use like or as.
He was fierce; a lion in battle. |
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UNI
A prefix; a word that is added to the beginning of a word. It chanes the meaning of the word. |
Uni means one.
Unicycle - a vechile with one wheel. |
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SEMI
A prefix; a word that is added to the beginning of a word. It chanes the meaning of the word. |
Semi means half.
Semicircle - half a circle. |
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LESS
A suffix; a word that is added to the end of a word. It changes the meaning of the word. |
Less means without.
Fearless - having no fear. |
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SNOLLYGOSTER
Noun |
A shrewd, unprincipled person; especially a politician.
Beware of the snollgosters in congress! |
