Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Vocabulary words


Amenity noun: The pleasantness of a place or person
Condone noun: accept and allow
Cultivated Adj: try to aquire or develope
Disarming Adj: take a weapon or weapons away
Droll Adj: curious or unusual way that provokes dry amusment
Imperative Adj: of vital importance, crucial
Quarry Noun: a place typically large deep pit were stone and other material are or have been extracted
Scruple noun: a feeling of doubt or hesitation with reguard to the morality or propriety of a course of action
Solicitously Adj: characterized by having or showing interest or concern
Tangible Adj: perceptible by touch
Uncanny Adj: strange or mysterious esp in a unsettling way
Zealous Adj: having or showing zeal
Zeal= great energy or enthusiasm. 

The gatekeeper condone the friendly merchant to pass into the city.
A tourist was very surprised by the amenities that people in alaska have.
The prisoner was cultivated because it was his turn to read to the other inmates and he had a spectacular voice.
Thanks to the alarm the old man had enough time for disarming the gun from the robber.
The clown brought only a droll presant to the nine year old birthday party.
It was very imperative that Mr.Sanchez got the files to Burt's office by 12:00 p.m or he would be fired.
The quarry was a great place to mine and find gold.
I questioned the scruple of shooting a three point during the final minutes of the games.
It would be futile to run from the thousands of cops with guns poitned at you.
The fat cop solitiously care for the bird that broke its wing by sending it to the vet.
The 16 year old teen was over zealous that she got a car for her birthday.



1 comment:

  1. Alex - use cultivated as an adjective. You need to have it modify a noun.

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