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English 1.1: Building Your Vocabulary Start a document and save it as “English 1-1 Vocabulary Usage”. Part 1 Read over the following list of words. Make sure to look up those

English 1.1: Building Your Vocabulary

Start a document and save it as  “English 1-1 Vocabulary Usage“.

Part 1

Read over the following list of words. Make sure to look up those you do not recognize in the dictionary to be sure to get their correct meaning.

Define each word and then use each word in a sentence to prove that you understand its meaning and correct usage in a complete sentence.

Abode

 

Innate

Acerbate

 

Inundating

Altruistic

 

Kinesthetic

Apparatus

 

Laconic

Authoritative

 

Lethal

Banal

 

Linguistic

Baroque

 

Loquacious

Benevolent

 

Magnanimous

Clandestine

 

Meticulous

Collegial

 

Mettle

 

 

 

Compelling

 

Monetary

Constraint

 

Nuance

Contradict

 

Palpitate

Dearth

 

Paramount

Debacle

 

Parlance

Deferential

 

Perpetuate

Despondent

 

Placate

Discern

 

Plethora

Dissent

 

Polyphonic

Dissipate

 

Posit

 

 

 

Droll

 

Prescience

Dubious

 

Profligate

Efficacious

 

Profuse

Efficacy

 

Proliferation

Elicit

 

Psychometrics

Embezzlement

 

Rebuttal

Eminent

 

Refrain (Noun)

Emit

 

Refrain (Verb)

Envelop

 

Refute

Epistemology

 

Reimburse

 

 

 

Eradicate

 

Reiterate

Erudite

 

Render (Noun)

Esthetic

 

Render (Verb)

Evade

 

Revelatory

Exacerbate

 

Revoke

Exasperating

 

Separatists

Feat

 

Subsidence

Germane

 

Succinct

Gravitas

 

Surfeit

Heed

 

Tome

 

 

 

Heterodoxy

 

Treacherous

Idiosyncrasy

 

Usage

Idiosyncratic

 

Veracity

Ignominious

 

Vernacular

Illicit

 

Viable

Impede

 

Vicinity

Implements

 

Volatile

Incipient

 

Wage

Incite

 

Yearn

Inimical

 

Zeal

Part 2

Select 25 of the vocabulary words and incorporate them into a 600-word essay explaining how frequent reading can help improve one’s vocabulary usage.

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