Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Vocab #10

Aberration
My guess: Irritation
Definition: the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course
Context: French class

Punitive
My guess: small
Definition: serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment
Context: mom

Forays

My guess: fortress
Definition: a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder
Context: APUSH

Provincial
My guess: useless
Definition: having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial
Context: MLK, Beauty and the Beast

Tribulation
My guess: challenge
Definition: grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering
Context: Princess and the Frog

Malfeasance
My guess: bad
Definition: the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing
Context: dictionary

Dict
My guess: to say
Definition: to say
Words: contradict, dictate, diction, edict, predict

Ject
My guess: abrupt
Definition: throw
Words: eject, inject, interject, project, reject, subject

Script
My guess: text
Definition: to write
Words: describe, description, prescribe, prescription, subscribe, subscription, transcribe, transcription

Tract
My guess: friction
Definition: to pull, drag
Words: attract, contract, detract, extract, protract, retract, traction

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