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Welcome to Decent Exposure High School Volume III:. covet (Slide 13) entreat (Slide 14) chastise (Slide 15) discreet (Slide 16) lucid (Slide 17) obstinate (Slide 18) vacuous (Slide 19) enigma (Slide 20) aversion (Slide 21) avert (Slide 22) nonchalant (Slide 23) frugal (Slide 24) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
indignant (Slide 2)usurp (Slide 3)tremulous (Slide 4)deride (Slide 5)insolent (Slide 6)revere (Slide 7)petulant (Slide 8)complacent (Slide 9)amiable (Slide 10)buttress (Slide 11)knell (Slide 12)
covet (Slide 13)entreat (Slide 14)chastise (Slide 15)discreet (Slide 16)lucid (Slide 17)obstinate (Slide 18)vacuous (Slide 19)enigma (Slide 20)aversion (Slide 21)avert (Slide 22)nonchalant (Slide 23)frugal (Slide 24)zeal (Slide 25)pious (Slide 26)astute (Slide 27)opulent (Slide 28)
Welcome to Decent Exposure High School Volume III:
indignant: defensively angry because of an insult Forms:
N: indignation
V: 00
Adj: indignant
Adv: indignantly
Related: dignity, indignity
Syn: insulted, defensiveAnt: flattered
indignationShe only felt a furious surge of
that he should think her such a fool.
Gone with the Wind --Margaret Mitchell
indignantly.
indignationindignantly.“We weren’t trying to hear him! said Ron
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire --J.K. Rowling
, and a storm of
passions, rushed through the listener’s heart, as the plot was laid bare.
Rage, astonishment, , and a storm of
Nicholas Nickleby --Charles Dickens
Any form of this word will appear once in every 299 pages of text.
usurping
The ghosts were returning; they filled Italy, they
were even the places she had known
as a child. A Room with a View --E.M. Forster
usurpations.
usurp
The history of the present King of Great Britain is
The Declaration of Independence --Thomas Jefferson, et. al.
a history of repeated injuries andThis was a shocking thing; that the slime of the pit
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde --Robert Louis Stevenson
seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous
dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead,
and had no shape, should the offices of life.
usurpation
William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland --Lewis Carroll
the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who
wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed
to and conquest
usurp: seize political power undeservedly
Forms:
N: usurper, usurpation
V: usurp, usurps
usurped, usurping
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
Syn: commandeer, appropriate
Ant: yield, surrender
Any form of this word will appear oncein every 658 pages of text.
tremulous: shaky, usually because of fearForms:
N: tremor
V: tremble, trembles,
trembled, trembling
Adj: tremulous
Adv: tremulously
Related: tremor
Syn: undulatingAnt: rigid
tremulously,
tremulous.
the Witch inhaled.
Something Wicked This Way Comes --Ray Bradbury
Now, experimentally, daring to test,H.P. and the Deathly Hollows --J. K. Rowling
Dumbledore’s smile was
The Picture of Dorian Gray --Oscar Wilde
In the grass, the daisies were
tremulous.paler and thinner, and his voice more
…with every successive Sabbath, his cheek was
Something Wicked This Way Comes --Ray Bradbury
Any form of this word will appear once in every 873 pages of text.
deride: to express scorn with cruel laughterForms:
N: derision
V: deride, derides,
derided, deriding
Adj: derisive
Adv: derisively
Related: ridiculous
Syn: mock; jeerAnt: compliment, support
derisiveHe gave a short,
H.P. and the Chamber of Secrets --J. K. Rowling
laugh. derision, There was a stirring in the crowd, a few hoots of
October Sky --Homer Hickam
but Kennedy smiled.
derision. Usually, she could will herself to absorb Mariam’s
A Thousand Splendid Suns --Khaled Hosseini
and finger-pointing
derision
“How did you like getting shot?”
Putting all the
Eragon --Christopher Paolini
he could in his voice, he jeered,
Any form of this word will appear once in every 650 pages of text.
Forms:
N: insolence
V: 00
Adj: insolent
Adv: insolently
Syn: impudent; disrespectful; audacious; brazen; impertinent
Ant: deferential; respectful; humble; obedient; docile
insolent: disrespectful; fresh; bratty
insolence and insubordination.
Remember that I am not Dumbledore, who forgave your
H.P. and the Deathly Hollows --J.K. Rowling
insolent, You’re
Angela’s Ashes --Frank McCourt
woman. insolence
“I will not suffer,” said the Baron, “such meanness on your
part, or such
Candide --Voltaire
on yours.”,insolent,
behind his glasses.
He stared back
Lock and Key --Sarah Dessen
his eyes seemingly huge
Any form of this word will appear once in every 419 pages of text.
Forms:
N: reverence
V: revere, reveres, revered,
revering
Adj: reverent, irreverent
Adv: reverently, irreverently
Related: Reverend
Syn: pay homage toAnt: desecrate; insult
revere: respect deeply, almost to the point of worship
reverent
revere
reverent
The woman eyed her with a
A Thousand Splendid Suns --Khaled Hosseini
,almost awestruck,
expression.
reverenceFriedrich Nietzsche, in The Fountainhead --Ayn Rand
The noble soul has for itself.
My hands naturally came together in The Life of Pi --Yan Martel
worship.
The Bourne Identify --Robert Ludlum
They those old soldiers.
Any form of this word will appear once in every 167 pages of text.
petulant: cranky, grouchy Forms:
N: petulance
V: 00
Adj: petulant
Adv: petulantly
Syn: irritable, peevish,cantankerous, fractious,testy, pouty,
Ant: agreeable, docile, benign, easygoing
petulance.
petulant
O Pioneers! --Willa Cather
“I’m angry with you, Emil,” she broke out withEnder’s Game --Orson Scott Card
You can be as as you want, tomorrow.petulance when anything goes wrong.
His manner varies from genial bullying when he is in a good
humor to stormy
Pygmalion --George Bernard Shaw petulant
and tired and cross.
“But we’re just sitting here,” he said, sounding
Cujo --Stephen King
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complacent: blissfully unaware; undeservedly confident
Forms:
N: complacency
V: 00
Adj: complacent
Adv: complacently
Related: placid
Syn: smugAnt: cautious, wary
complacentCatch-22 --Joseph Heller
gratification.Milo nodded serenely with complacentSummer Pleasures --Nora Robertswith what he’d been doing.
But he’d let himself become too
complacent
Twilight --Stephanie Meyer
though,” he warned me. “Don’t let that make you complacent
Naked in Death --J.D. Robb
That would have wiped that smile off his face.
Any form of this word will appear once in every 656 pages of text.
amiable: friendly; sociably pleasant
Forms:
N: amiability
V: 00
Adj: amiable
Adv: amiably
Related: amor
Syn: gregarious, affable
Ant: hostile, aloof
amiably.
The Killer Angels --Michael Shaara
The spy chatted amiableVaria did not try to look and kept her gloomy
expression. The Idiot --Fyodor Dostoevsky
amiable
Little Dorrit --Charles Dickens
I am playful; playfulness is part of my character.
The Book Thief --Markus Zusak
I can be Agreeable. Affable. And that’s only the A’s. amiable.
Any form of this word will appear once in every 920 pages of text.
buttress: (n. or v.) support, as in an architectural structure that supports a building
Forms:
N: buttress, buttresses
V: buttress, buttresses
buttressed, buttressing
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
Syn: reinforce, fortify
Ant: undermine
buttressesIt’s got all these turrets and flying and stuff.
The Princess Diaries --Meg Cabot
buttresses
There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow
of one of the stone ahead of us.
A Farewell to Arms --Ernest Hemingway
buttresses
There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow
He could see the arched of the cathedral dome.
All the Pretty Horses --Cormac McCarthy
buttresses
They behaved like people who do not want to be seen;
lurking in shadow behind
The Silver Chair --C.S. Lewis
or in doorways.
Any form of this word will appear once in every 1,929 pages of text.
knell: the sound of a bell, esp. a bell that informs of a death
knell
His manner was so casual when he was sounding the
death
Gone with the Wind --Margaret Mitchell
of Tara. knelled. The bell clanged and
Sea Wolf --Jack London
knell There seemed to be an ominous
The Idiot --Fyodor Dostoevsky
of some evil to come.
knell
It could just as well have been himself for whom the death
Love in the Time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
was tolling.
Forms:
N: knell, knells
V: knell, knells, knelled,
knelling
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
Expression: death knell
Syn: toll, peal
Any form of this word will appear once in every 4,220 pages of text.
Forms:
N: 00
V: covet, covets, coveted
coveting
Adj: covetous
Adv: covetously
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.”
Syn: begrudge, envy
Ant: bestow, bequeath
covet: to want something that you have no right to want
coveted He’s
The Alchemist --Michael Scott
that for a long time, and now he has it.coveted.He put on his hat and the dark cordovan gloves I
The Lovely Bones --Alice Sebold
coveted.between him and the land he
Snow Falling on Cedars --David Guterson
He decided to end the life of another man who stood
Any form of this word will appear once in every 816 pages of text.
covetsWhen someone
something, they desire and lust after it.
Sara Shepherd, Pretty Little Liars
entreat: plead with
Forms:
N: entreaty, entreaties
V: entreat, entreats,
entreated, entreating
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
Syn: beseech Ant: reject
entreatI you not to suppose that I moved this way
in order to beg for a partner.
Pride and Prejudice --Jane Austen
entreatLet me you, for your own sake and for hers, to be more quiet.
Hard Times --Charles Dickens
entreat you. Say no more against it, I
Mansfield Park --Jane Austen
entreat you to accept me as a husband.I
Jane Eyre --Charlotte Bronte
You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are--
Any form of this word will appear once in every 1,094 pages of text.
chastise: punish
Forms:
N: chastisement
V: chastise, chastises,
chastised, chastising
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
Syn: castigate; reproach; reprove; rebuke;censure; reprimand; penalizeAnt: reward; laud; praise; extol; fawn over
chastisement.
The Giver --Lois Lowry
It was a minor rule, rather like rudeness, punishable by gentlechastise
Eldest --Christopher Paolini
Now I didn’t bring you in here just to you.chastise
The Kite Runner --Khaled Hosseini
How could I, of all people, someone for their past?
The Shining --Stephen King
He would them both, harshly.
Any form of this word will appear once in every 1,031 pages of text.
discreet: kept secret or private Forms:
N: discretion, indiscretion
V: 00
Adj: discreet, indiscreet
Adv: discreetly, indiscretely
Syn: subtle, covert, modest
Ant: overt, immodest, obvious, indiscreet
indiscretion.
The Doll’s House --Henrik Ibsen
I daresay you know, like everybody else, that once, many
years ago, I was guilty of an
A Streetcar Named Desire --Tennessee Williams
I think I impressed upon him how important it is to handle
this thing discreetly.
discretion
The Merry Wives of Windsor --William Shakespeare
Old folks, you know, have and know the world. discreetly
unsentimental in letters.
This Side of Paradise --F. Scott Fitzgerald
He discovered Isabelle to be and aggravatingly
Any form of this word will appear once in every 530 pages of text.
lucid: clear
Forms:
N: lucidity
V: 00
Adj: lucid
Adv: 00
Syn: comprehensible, coherent, limpid
Ant: incomprehensible, incoherent, muddy
lucid
despite her anxiety.
The Bourne Identity --Robert Ludlum
She was perfectly ,you could even say controlled,lucid.
The Life of Pi --Yan Martel
My mind made a final attempt at beinglucid--
fit around the words.
things were clear– but my tongue wouldn’t
The Things They Carried --Tim O’Brien
I was lucid.
A Soldier of the Great War --Mark Helprin
Though drunk, Alessandro was
Any form of this word will appear once in every 867 pages of text.
obstinate: stubborn
Forms:
N: obstinacy
V: 00
Adj: obstinate
Adv: obstinately
Syn: mulish, cantankerous
Ant: agreeable, negotiable, flexible, conciliatory
ob: against or reverse: obstruct, obnoxious, obvious, object
obstinately.
The Hobbit --J.R.R. Tolkien
“I’ll do as I choose and I go as I please,”
said Bilbo obstinate pig.
The Magician’s Nephew --C.S. Lewis
And I’ve had enough of you too—you beastly,
stuck-upobstinately.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory --Rahl Dahl
“I want the gum!” Violet said
obstinate
Gone With the Wind --Margaret Mitchell
men get when they get their
backs up.
You know how
Any form of this word will appear once in every 338 pages of text.
vacuous
vacuous
Cujo --Stephen King
His eyes seemed wandering, again.
The Waves --Virginia Woolf
People noticed the of my face and the
aimlessness of my conversation.
vacuously He opened the medicine cabinet. He stared rather
Franny and Zooey --J.D. Salinger
into it for a few seconds, as though he had forgotten why he
opened it.
vacuous look passed and Bourne reached for
The Bourne Identity --Robert Ludlum
the phone.
The veiled,
vacuous: empty-headed, lacking substance
Forms:
N: vacuous, vacuity
V: 00
Adj: vacuous
Adv: vacuously
Syn: shallow, inane, superficialAnt: profound, intellectual, erudite, sophisticated
Relatives: vacuum; evacuate, vaccinate
Any form of this word will appear once in every 5,791 pages of text.
enigma: puzzle, mysteryForms:
N: enigma
V: 00
Adj: enigmatic
Adv: 00
Syn: conundrum
enigmas It was just another of the he never solved.
Childhood’s End--Arthur C. Clarke
enigmatic
New Moon --Stephanie Meyer
flitted across her face.
range of emotions I watched curiously as an
enigma He found himself fascinated by the
of the girl’s disappearance
Childhood’s End--Arthur C. Clarke
enigma She got up very early, intrigued by the
of the dream. Love in the Time of Cholera--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Any form of this word will appear once in every 5,511 pages of text.
aversion: strong, automatic dislike, esp. one causing a negative physicalreaction
Forms:
N: aversion
V: avert, averts, averted,
averting
Adj: averse
Adv: aversely
Syn: revulsion, loathing
Ant: attraction, magnetism, proclivity, addiction
aversion
She had avoided Emily Brent with a shuddering
And Then There Were None--Agatha Christie
aversion
to her stepmother. She had an unreasoning
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes--Arthur Conan Doyle
aversion.
made a face—a sneering, distasteful face—the word reeking
A Thousand Splendid Suns --Khaled Hosseini
Others called them Mujahideen, but, when they did, they
of deep
word carefully.
“We have an to it,” she said, choosing the
The Alchemist--Michael Scott
aversion
Any form of this word will appear once in every 338 pages of text.
avert: turn away from
Forms:
N: aversion
V: avert, averts, averted,
averting
Adj: averse
Adv: 00
Syn: evade, reject
Ant: seek out,
Root: vert, verseto turn: divert,diverse; convert,converse; subvert,subversive; traverse
averted.A potential crisis had been
The Shack--William P. Young
avert They shrug, mumble, and their gazes.
Water for Elephants--Sara Gruen
averted
to focus her thoughts.
Tally her eyes from Shay’s beauty, trying
Uglies--Scott Westerfeld
avertedListening for Lions--Gloria Whelan
his eyes. He merely turned red and
Any form of this word will appear once in every 338 pages of text.
nonchalantly
nonchalant: having a free,casual, informal attitude
Forms: N: nonchalance
V: 00
Adj: nonchalant
Adv: nonchalantly
Syn: insouciant; blithe Ant: tense, intense
And he said , “I can waltz.”
The Grapes of Wrath —John Steinbeck
collisions by the thinnest of margins, all without so much as a
My driver drove
The Kite Runner —Khaled Hosseini
and recklessly, averting
pause in the incessant stream of words spewing from his mouth.
nonchalant.Catcher in the Rye--J. D. Salinger
I just got very cool and
nonchalant”“Don’t rush, act , Amy cautioned.
I Am the Cheese --Robert Cormier
Any form of this word will appear once in every 2,269 pages of text.
frugal
a criminal activity.
They’re so with things here, waste is practically
Susanne Collins--The Hunger Games
frugal: thrifty; reluctant to spend moneyForms: N: frugality
Verb: 00
Adj: frugal
Adv: frugally
Syn: miserly, parsimonious
Ant: extravagant, lavish
frugally.Animal Farm --George Orwell
The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and
living
frugal,
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin --Benjamin Franklin
but to avoid all appearances to the contrary.
In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman,
I took care not only to be in reality industrious andfrugal
Confessions of a Shopoholic --Sophie Kinsella
And I reckon I deserve a treat today, after being so
for the last few days.
Any form of this word will appear once in every 1,326 pages of text.
zeal
The Things They Carried --Tim O’Brien
I didn’t have that patriotic zeal. They flung themselves into their work with savageOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich--Alexander Solzhenitsyn
zeal: excessive commitment or enthusiasm
Forms: N: zeal, zealot
Verb: 00
Adj: zealous
Adv: zealously
Syn: exuberance, ardor, fervor, elan, fanaticism
Ant: apathy, lethargy, nonchalance,
indifference, ennui
it with a
If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued
bordering on obsession.Into Thin Air --Jon Krakauer
zeal
Into Thin Air --Jon Krakauer
Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate
and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin.
Any form of this word will appear once in every 202 pages of text.
Pious
pious
pious
pious: observing religious laws and customsForms: N: piety
Verb: 00
Adj: pious
Adv: piously
Ant: profane, blasphemous
practices and good works? A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man--James Joyce
Why do you turn away from your
Most were Christians or Muslims.Outcasts United --Warren St. John
and benevolence enough for two.Uncle Tom’s Cabin --Harriet Beecher Stowe
He really seemed somehow to other to fancy that his wife
had piety
people have always gotten on my nerves.The Secret Life of Bees --Sue Monk Kidd
Any form of this word will appear once in every 274 pages of text.
pious: observing religious laws and customsForms: N: piety
Verb: 00
Adj: pious
Adv: piously
Ant: profane, blasphemous
astute: sharply observant Forms: N: asuteness
Verb: 00
Adj: astute
Adv: astutely
Syn: shrewd
Ant: obtuse, naïve, gullible
astute I’d say that’s a remarkably analysis.
The Shining --Stephen Kingastute,
are you losing it now?
“You’ve completely changed, you used to be so
The Trial--Franz Kafkaastuteness, For all his sagacity, for all his caution and
the old judge had gone the way of the rest.
And Then There Were None --Agatha Christie
astuteMr. Iacocca does not call for an air strike against Tokyo.
4. Chrysler may not like Toyota, but the
The Bourne Ultimatum --Robert Ludlum
Any form of this word will appear once in every 1,835 pages of text.
opulent: observably wealthy, showy
Forms: N: opulence
Verb: 00
Adj: opulent
Adv: opulently
Syn: ostentatious, lavish
Ant: humble, modest, understated
Related: optical, opticianopulent An priest is a contradiction.
Les Miserables --Victor Hugo
opulent than in New Bedford.
Nowhere in all America will you find parks and gardens
more
Moby Dick --Herman Melville
opulent
“How grand you look, Randolph,” he continued in a thin
voice while studying his host and glancing around at thesuite.
The Bourne Ultimatum --Robert Ludlum
opulence
East of Eden --John Steinbeck
of having a teacher for each grade made anThe
impression on him.
Any form of this word will appear once in every 1,590 pages of text.