Gaby SETIABUDI
Ms. Stronks
ELA 8
January 5, 2016
Vocab #11
Ms. Stronks
ELA 8
January 5, 2016
Vocab #11
- Assuaged
- To make less severe, mild, relive pain
- My theory to make my leg have less assuage was by amputating it.
- To make less severe, mild, relive pain
- Concession
- Act of conceding or yielding as a right or a privilege
- The officers needed to concede the pathway due to the issue occurring in the area.
- The officers needed to concede the pathway due to the issue occurring in the area.
- Contentious
- Likely to cause disagreement or argument
- My hatred toward the person would most likely be contentious distracting the focus of the goal.
- Likely to cause disagreement or argument
- Domiciled
- A place of residence, house or home
- I enjoy staying at my domiciled place rather than going outside.
- A place of residence, house or home
- Indigenous
- Originating in and characteristic of a particular reason
- The plants are indigenous to the city of Shanghai.
- Originating in and characteristic of a particular reason
- Malevolent
- Wishing evil or harm to another or others
- I know I shouldn’t be malevolent toward others even though I want to.
- Wishing evil or harm to another or others
- Meditatively
- Given to, characterized by
- The description was meditatively by the author.
- Given to, characterized by
- Piety
- Reference for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations
- The short poem had a piety mentioned many times in the story.
- Reference for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations
- Predilection
- Natural liking for something, a tendency to do
- I had a predilection during the weekend to sleep in.
- Natural liking for something, a tendency to do
- Sojourn
- Period of time when you stay in a place as a guest
- During our trips we sojourn at the hotel.
- Period of time when you stay in a place as a guest
- Taciturn
- Tending to be quiet
- The biggest struggle is when I’m laughing to hard when I need to be taciturn.
- Tending to be quiet
- Vapid
- Not lively or interesting
- Waking up for school made my mood immediately become vapid.
- Not lively or interesting