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Week 9: Houck - Coggle Diagram
Week 9: Houck
Jaded
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Example Sentence: While the new employee eagerly got to work, all the veteran workers around her looked jaded and tiredly followed the workplace procedures.
Definition: Worn out or wearied, as by overwork or overuse; dulled or satiated by overindulgence.
Nubilous
Example Sentence: Many articles about his works told me that, due to the nubilous style of his writing, his pieces could be interpreted in many different ways.
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Desolate
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Example Sentence: Many commercials promoting animal activism focus on desolate dogs that have been left on the sides of the street.
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Quixotic
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Example Sentence: The girl was quixotic, always doing something new (yet equally strange) every time I turned and looked at her.
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Felicitous
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Example Sentence: Though she was worried she would be overdressed, it turns out the long skirt was felicitous for the party.
Definition: Well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; appropriate
Evanescence
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Example Sentence: The evanescence of the playing card fascinated me, so I begged the magician to tell me how he did the trick.
Definition: 1. The quality of vanishing quickly or being fleeting 2. The act or fact of vanishing quickly
Saccharine
Definition: 1. Containing or yielding sugar 2. Cloyingly agreeable or ingratiating; exaggeratedly sweet or sentimental.
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Example Sentence: I knew my mother was going to take my brother's side as he was always so saccharine to get her to like him more.
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Pontificate
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Example Sentence: We could all tell that the way he would pontificate just covered up the fact that he knew nothing about the topic.
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Exonerate
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Example Sentence: I tried to exonerate myself, but my mom kept accusing me of breaking the vase.
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