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Week 12: Miller - Coggle Diagram
Week 12: Miller
Cordiform
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Example Sentence: Recently, I've been on the lookout for a cordiform baking pot: I think cooking in something heart-shaped sounds really cute.
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Elegy
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Example Sentence: My friends typically make fun of me for my somber taste in music, but I think elegies are powerful and full of emotion.
Definition: A song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation, especially for one who is dead.
Metapolitics
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Example Sentence: He was never very interested in metapolitics as he felt they were too complicated and hard to understand.
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Profligate
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Example Sentence: In class, we learned about the largest mansion in the world, which was a profligate attempt at flaunting wealth.
Definition: 1. Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute 2. recklessly prodigal or extravagant.
Svelte
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Example Sentence: I didn't like the svelte designs of these new buildings; I much preferred the rough, historical ones that had been there previously.
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Emaciated
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Example Sentence: We were really worried for my cat as she looked emaciated and small, and the visit to the vet only confirmed our fears.
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Pernicious
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Example Sentence: She was always much too scared to eat mushrooms for fear that they were actually pernicious ones.
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Requiem
Definition: Any musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the dead.
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Example Sentence: While I typically associated the slow, steady chords of the organ with requiems, she thought the sound was joyful.
Macabre
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Example Sentence: She quite liked macabre decorations and had fake skulls, images of ghosts, and dark colors surrounding her room.
Definition: 1. Gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible 2. Of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer and uglier aspect.
Hirsute
Definition: 1. Hairy; shaggy 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of hair
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