Friday, September 27, 2013

Vocabulary

Part of speech: Verb
Source sentence: "The war INTRIGUED her."
Context clue explanation: We can use our logic and figure out that she was interested in the war.
Original sentence: Her Halloween costume was very intriguing.
 
Part of speech: Adjective
Source sentence: "Dobbins was INVULNERABLE. Never wounded, never a scratch."
Context clue explanation: The definition was stated after the word in the next sentence.
Original sentence: My mom was invulnerable when she divorced my dad.
 
Part of speech: Noun
Source sentence: "The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, it's tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned INDIFFERENCE."
Context clue explanation: We can use our logic and find out that there's a lot of different emotions coming from the letters and unimportance was one of them.
Original sentence: He had a indifference towards what I was telling him.

 

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