Category: Advanced Vocabulary (Page 6 of 8)

Write a sentence using the word harangue 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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harangue /həˈræŋ/

adjective

1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
2. a long, passionate, and vehement speech, especially one delivered before a public gathering.
3. any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse. 

verb (used with object), harangued,haranguing.

Origin of harangue

Middle French, Italian, Gothic 1530-1540

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Write a sentence using the word gargoyle 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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gargoyle /ˈgɑr gɔɪl/

noun

1. a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
2. a spout, terminating in a groteque representation of a human or animal figure with open mouth, projecting from the gutter of a building for throwing rain water clear of a building.

Origin of gargoyle

Middle English 1250-1300

Related forms: gargoyled, adjective

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Write a sentence using the word craven 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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craven /ˈkreɪ vən/

adjective

1. cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.

noun

1. a coward.

verb (used with object)

1. to make cowardly.

Idioms

1. cry craven, to yield; capitulate; give up.

Origin of craven

Middle English 1175-1225

Related forms: cravenly, adverb; cravenness, noun

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Write a sentence using the word juxtapose 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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juxtapose /ˈdʒʌk stəˌpoʊz, ˌdʒʌk stəˈpoʊz/

verb (used with an object)

1. to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. 

Origin of juxtapose

Middle English 1850-1855

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Write a sentence using the word grotesque 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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grotesque /groʊˈtɛsk/

adjective

1. odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
2. fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms, as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls, foliage, etc. 

noun

1. any grotesque object, design, person, or thing.

Origin of grotesque

French, Italian 1555-1565

Related forms: grotesquely, adverb; grotesqueness, noun

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Write a sentence using the word analogous 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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analogous /əˈnæl ə gəs/

adjective

1. having analogy; corresponding in some particular: A brain and a computer are analogous.
2. Biology. corresponding in function, but not evolved from corresponding organs, as the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird.

Origin of analogous

Latin, Greek 1640-1650

Related forms: analogously, adverb; analogousness, noun

Synonyms

1. similar, alike, like, comparable, akin.

Antonyms

1. dissimilar.

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Write a sentence using the word conundrum 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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conundrum /kəˈnʌn drəm/

noun

1. a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper. 
2. anything that puzzles.

Origin of conundrum 1590-1600

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Write a sentence using the word ostentatious 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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ostentatious /ˌɒs tɛnˈteɪ ʃəs, -tən-/

adjective

1. characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser. 
2. (of actions, manner, qualities exhibited, etc.) intended to attract notice: Lady Bountiful’s ostentatious charity. 

Origin of ostentatious

1650-1660

Related forms: ostentatiously, adverb; ostentatiousness, noun

Synonyms

1. grandiose.

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Write a sentence using the word homogeneous 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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homogeneous /ˌhoʊ məˈdʒi ni əs, -ˈdʒin yəs, ˌhɒm ə-/

adjective

1. composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population. 
2. of the same kind or nature; essentially alike. 
3. Mathematics. 1. having a common property throughout: a homogeneous solid figure. 2. having all terms of the same degree: a homogeneous equation. 3. relation to a function of several variables that becomes multiplied by some power of a constant when each variable is multiplied by that constant: x 2y 3 is a homogeneous expression of degree. 4. relating to a differential equation in which a linear combination of derivatives is set equal to zero.

Orgin of homogeneous

Medieval Latin 1635-1645

Related form: homogeneously, adverb

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Write a sentence using the word commandeer 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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commandeer /ˌkɒm ənˈdɪər/

verb (used with object)

1. to order or force into active military service. 
2. to seize (private property) for military or other public use: The police officer commandeered a taxi and took off after the getaway car. 
3. to seize arbitrarily.

Origin of commandeer

Afrikaans, French 1880-1885

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