Category: Advanced Vocabulary (Page 3 of 8)

Write a sentence using the word retribution 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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retribution /ˌrɛ trəˈbyu ʃən/

noun

1. requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
2. something given or inflicted in such requital.
3. Theology. the distribution of rewards and punishments in a future life. 

Origin of retribution

Middle English 1350-1400

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Write a sentence using the word ghastly 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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ghastly /ˈgæst li, ˈgɑst-/ 

adjective

1. shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
2. resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: a ghastly look to his face.
3. terrible; very bad: a ghastly error.

adverb

1. Also, ghastily. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly.
2. with a deathlike quality. 

Origin of ghastly

Middle English 1275-1325

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Write a sentence using the word stymie 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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stymie /ˈstaɪ mi/

noun

1. Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball’s lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
2. a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.

verb (used with object)

1. to hinder, block or thwart.

Origin of stymie

1855-1860

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Write a sentence using the word convene 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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convene /kənˈvin/ 

verb (used without object)

1. to come together or assemble, usually for some public purpose.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to assemble; convoke.
2. to summon to appear, as before a judicial officer. 

Origin of convene

Latin, Late Middle English 1400-1450

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Write a sentence using the word fruition 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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fruition /fruˈɪʃ ən/ 

noun

1. attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment: After years of hard work she finally brought her idea to full fruition. 
2. enjoyment, as of something attained or realized. 
3. state of bearing fruit. 

Late Middle English 1375-1425

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Write a sentence using the word paradox 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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paradox /ˈpær əˌdɒks/

noun

1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
2. a self-contradictory and false proposition.
3. any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature. 
4. an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion.

Origin of paradox

Latin, Greek 1350-1360

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Write a sentence using the word litigate 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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litigate /ˈlɪt ɪˌgeɪt/

verb (used with object)

1. to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law. 
2. Archaic. to dispute (a point, assertion, etc.)

verb (used without object)

1. to carry on a lawsuit.

Origin of litigate

Latin 1605-1615

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Write a sentence using the word flamboyant 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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flamboyant /flæmˈbɔɪ ənt/

adjective

1. strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors. 
2. conspicuously dashing and colorful: the flamboyant idol of international society.
3. florid; ornate; elaborately styled: flamboyant speeches. 
4. Architechure. a. having the form of an ogee, as a bar of tracery. b. noting or pertaining to French Gothic architecture of the late 15th and early and middle 16th centuries, characterized by the use of flamboyant tracery, intricacy of detailing, virtuosity of workmanship, attenuation of parts, and frequent complication of interior space.

Origin of flamboyant

Old French 1835-1835

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Write a sentence using the word travesty 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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travesty /ˈtræv ə sti/

noun

1. a literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject, characterized by grotesque or ludicrous incongruity of style, treatment, or subject matter. 
2. any grotesque or artistic composition so inferior in quality as to be merely a grotesque imitation of its model.
3. any grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice. 

verb (used with object)

1. to make a travesty on; turn (a serious work or subject) to ridicule by burlesquing.
2. to imitate grotesquely or absurdly.
   to make a travesty on; turn (a serious work orsubject) to ridicule by burlesquing.
3. to imitate grotesquely or absurdly.

Origin of affinity

French, Italian 1655-1665

Source: Dictionary.com

Write a sentence using the word apocalypse 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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apocalypse /əˈpɒk ə lɪps/

noun

1. any of a class of Jewish or Christian writings that appeared from about 200 b.c. to a.d. 350 and were assumed to make revelations of the until mate divine purpose. 
2. a prophetic revelation, especially concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil. 
3. any revelation or prophecy.
4. any universal or widespread destruction or disaster: the apocalypse of nuclear war. 

Origin of boisterous

Middle English 1125-1175

Related forms: boisterously, adverb; boisterousness, noun

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