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Improving Vocabulary SkillsUnit 2 Chapter 11
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blightSomething that damages
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The rats in the street are a real blight on the neighborhood.
The open sewers in the slum blight the area.
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GloatExpressing spiteful delight
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Don’t gloat when you win. It isn’t nice.Little Tommy gloats when he wins in chess. Hopefully he’ll learn to be a gallant winner before he grows up.
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blatantObvious in an offensive manner
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Tommy stole the opponent’s queen in his last chess match.
Blatant cheating like that cost him the game.
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gauntBony; very skinny
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Michael Jordon was a gaunt basketball player,But he was still unbeatable even though he was really thin.
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immaculateSuper clean
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My mother will only eat at immaculate restaurants. Very few restaurants are as clean as her kitchen, so we rarely eat out.
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qualmdoubt
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President Bush had no qualms about using waterboarding to get information from captives.
Most people have qualms about using any kind of torture to get information.
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plagiarismStealing someone else’s ideas
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If you commit plagiarism, you could be expelled from school.
Plagiarism is a serious offense, akin to stealing.
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contrivePlan cleverly; think up
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Fatou contrived a clever excuse as to why she didn’t complete her
homework: the computer froze.
The teacher soon contrived of a way to double check the excuses her students gave for being late: she checked the date of the document.
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garbleJumble; mix up
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The computer sent a garbled error message, which only made the problem more difficult to solve.
Since she didn’t hold the microphone close to her mouth, what she said was just a garbled mess.
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retaliatePay back; get revenge
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Their team beat us last time, so we hope to retaliate and win this time.
When Mohamed hit Hannatou with a snowball, Hannatou retaliated by throwing a snowball back at him.