June 29, 2017 - New Vocabulary Words
The key is at the bottom of the page but don’t cheat !
The Words:
- fauns
- aegis
- sibylline
- estival
- cacoepy
- nepenthean
- doughty
- maffic
- bilboes
The Definition Choices:
- pertaining to a woman in ancient times who uttered oracles or prophecies of the gods
- a drug or drink that brings forgetfulness or sorrow
- to celebrate with extravagant public demonstrations
- a class of lustful rural gods represented by goat’s horns, ears, legs and tails
- brave or persistant
- bad or mistaken pronunciation
- protection, backing or support
- an iron bar with sliding shackles, used to fasten prisoners' ankles
- pertaining to or appropriate to summer
- a shallow channel cut into the ground by running water
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The Key:
- D (i.e. Just waking up with the light behind him, he looked like a befuddled fauns.)
- J (i,e. The rills in the dust beneath his workplace testified to his effort in such conditions.)
- G (i.e. EDS always provided me the accountability to learn and the aegis for attempting greatness. )
- A (i.e. Her manner and demeanor added a sibylline nature to her report. )
- I (i.e.Even with the snow falling outside, her excitement was infectious, even inspiring estival moment .)
- F (i.e. I always offer the nepenthean tilt to El Cajon when I speak the name .)
- B (i.e. He carried his ancestry like a saudade flag proclaiming his dissatisfaction with the status quo. )
- E (i.e. Throughout my career, I was much more doughty than was wise.)
- C (i,e. This town was positively maffick about their potato harvest.)
- H (i,e As the votes were tallied, he could feel the constraints of the bilboes being place upon him. .)
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