Vocabulary: fodder for brilliant thoughts

English 9 Unit 3

She was a strict adherent to the Atkins diet until it wasn’t cool anymore.

adherent (n.) a follower, supporter; (adj.) attached, sticking to marauder (n.) a raider, plunderer rift (n.) a split, break, breach

The eminent teacher retired after 35 years.

usurp (v.) to seize and hold a position by force

or without right eminent (adj.) famous, outstanding, distinguished;

projecting condone (v.) to pardon or overlook

Beg as you may, I will not abridge the vocabulary test.

irate (adj.) angry abridge (v.) to make shorter obesity (n.) extreme fatness

How wonderful to see your cherubic faces in the morning.

cherubic (adj.) resembling an angel portrayed as a

little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent

surmount (v.) to overcome, rise above

There appears to be a rift in their teeth.

You can surmount this obstacle and conquer your obesity.

angry irate (adj.) to make shorter abridge (v.) extreme fatness obesity (n.)

Though he says he’s helping them, the people in that neighborhood consider him a marauder.

(n.) a follower, supporter; (adj.) attached, sticking to adherent a raider, plunderer marauder (n.) a split, break, breach rift (n.)

All parents consider their children cherubic – even if only for a moment.

resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face;

cherubic (adj.) to overcome, rise above surmount (v.)

The coup’s leaders usurped the king’s throne.

to seize and hold a position by force or without right

usurp (v.) famous, outstanding, distinguished;

projecting eminent (adj.) to pardon or overlook condone (v.)

NOT cherubic

Cherubic

The speech at the funeral was insultingly trite.

trite (adj.) commonplace; overused, stale altercation (n.) an angry argument pilfer (v.) to steal in small quantities

She expressed her dissent regarding the plan and got fired for it.

dissent (v.) to disagree (n.) disagreement exorcise (v.) to drive out by magic; to dispose of

something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive

I terminated grades and students cheered with joy.

semblance (n.) a likeness; an outward appearance;

an apparition terminate (v.) to bring to an end pauper (n.) an extremely poor person

I could fabricate sentences all day.

fabricate (v.) to make, manufacture; to make up,

invent

GRATUITOUS WORD APPROACHING circuitous (adj.) roundabout, not direct

That purse has the semblance of Mom!

He presented the semblance of an intelligent man, but then he spoke.

a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition

semblance (n.)

to bring to an end terminate (v.)

an extremely poor person pauper (n.)

Stan the man pilfered croutons from the salad bar.

commonplace; overused, stale trite (adj.) an angry argument altercation (n.) to steal in small quantities pilfer (v.)

She exorcised the problems that plagued her the year before and did wonderfully.

(v.) to disagree (n.) disagreement dissent

to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive

exorcise (v.)

Sometimes I take the circuitous way home.

to make, manufacture; to make up, invent

fabricate (v.)

GRATUITOUS WORD APPROACHING roundabout, not direct circuitous (adj.)

When life terminates, pick a pretty cemetery.