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Write a sentence using the word nomenclature in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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nomenclature /ˈnoʊ mənˌkleɪ tʃər, noʊˈmɛn klə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər/

noun

1. a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
2. the names or terms comprising a set or system.

Origin of nomenclature

Latin 1600-1610

Related forms: nomenclatural, nomenclatorial  /ˌnoʊ mən kləˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-/, nomenclative  /ˈnoʊ mənˌkleɪ tɪv/, adjective

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Write a sentence using the word sequester in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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sequester /sɪˈkwɛs tər/

verb (used with an object)

1. to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
2. to remove or separate; banish; exile.
3. to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
4. Law. to remove (property) temporarily from the possession of the owner; seize and hold, as the property and income of a debtor, until legal claims are satisfied.
5. International Law. to requisition, hold, and control (enemy property).
6. to trap (a chemical in the atmosphere or environment) and isolate it in a natural or artificial storage area: There are processes to sequester carbon from a peer plant’s exhaust gases.
7. (Noun) an act or instance of sequestering; separation; isolation.
8. sequestration (definition 7): domestic programs starved for cash by the federal sequester. 

Origin of sequester

Middle English, Latin 1350-1400

Related forms: sequestrable, adjective

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Write a sentence using the word circumvent in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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circumvent /ˌsɜr kəmˈvɛnt, ˈsɜr kəmˌvɛnt/

verb (used with object)

1. to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
2. to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting: he circumvented capture by anticipating their movements.
3. to surround or encompass, as by stratagem; entrap: to circumvent a body of enemy troops.

Origin of circumvent

Latin 1545-1555

Related forms: circumventer, circumventor, noun; circumvention, noun; circumventive, adjective

Synonyms

2. escape, elude, evade, outwit. 3. encircle, ensnare.

Write a sentence using the word assuage in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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assuage /əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ/

verb (used with object) assuaged, assuaging.

1. to make milder or less sever; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one’s grief; to assuage one’s pain.
2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one’s hunger.
3. to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.

Origin of assuage

Middle English, Old French 1250-1300

Related forms: assuagement, noun; assuager, noun

Synonyms

1. alleviate, lessen.

Antonyms

1. intensify.

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