Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Vocabulary #3

Accomplice-  a person who helps another commit a crime
Annihilate-  to destroy completely
Arbitrary-  determined by chance and not by reason
Brazen- bold without shame
Catalyst-  A substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected
Exodus- A departure of a large number of people
Facilitate- make (an action or process) easy
Incorrigible- incapable of being corrected or amended
Latent-  present but not visible
Militant- vigorously active and aggressive
Morose- gloomy, bad tempered
Opaque-  not able to be seen through
Paramount- more important than anything
Prattle- to talk in a foolish or simple minded way
Rebut- to refute evidence or argument
Reprimand- A severe, formal or official rebuke
Servitude- the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful
Stagnant- having no current flow
Slapdash-  done too carelessly
Succumb- to yield to superior force


Sentences
1. The bank robber had an accomplice waiting outside in a car.
2. The dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima resulted in its total annihilation.
3. He felt brazen when he admitted to the crime he committed.
4. The catalyst is needed to make this chemical reaction occur.
5. Once the students found out there was a fire they made a mass exodus from the school building.
6. Exercise and diet are the key ways to facilitating weight loss.
7.  Some people are incorrigible towards certain subjects.
8. The detective found latent fingerprints on the wall.
9. He was very militant in defending his beliefs.
10. He became a morose person when his grandfather passed away.
11. Bathroom windows are usually opaque for privacy.
12. It's paramount for you to respect others.
13. Parents like to prattle on with their lectures.
14. The attorney rebutted the arguments in the case.
15. The defendant was reprimanded when he found out he was guilty.
16. Southern plantations relied on the servitude of slaves for their crops to make money.
17. The pond is stagnant because it has no movement.
18. He did a slapdash performance on his project and got an F.
19. In the movie 300 the spartans never succumbed to the persians.

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