Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Vocabulary

Expository-  intended to explain or describe something

Composition- the nature of something's ingredients for constituents

Assuage- make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

Decadence- moral or cultural decline

Hackneyed- Lacking significance through have being overused

Coalition-  to form an alliance

Transcend-to go above and beyond

Meritorious- something that deserves merit

Lurid- shocking

Petulant- bad tempered; childish; snotty

Sentences
1. The students want to develop creative and expository writing.
2. The composition of the recipe included eggs and flour.
3.Assuage the bad feelings.
4.Some historians hold the fall of Rome can be attributed to internal decadence.
5. The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases.
6.We formed a coalition against animal abuse.
7. I transcended the requirements on the project I had in anatomy.
8.The soldiers of America deserve a meritorious honor from us.
9. She as a lurid secret to tell us.
10. A lack of coffee is causing her petulant behavior this morning.

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