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Week 2 Vocabulary

Week 2 Vocabulary. Distend: Verb . To swell, to expand Your stomach will distend if you eat too much Halloween candy! The balloon distended when I b lew air into it. Fecund: Adjective. To be fertile or productive Zebra fish are fecund because they lay over 2000 eggs at a time!

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Week 2 Vocabulary

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  1. Week 2 Vocabulary

  2. Distend: Verb • To swell, to expand • Your stomach will distend if you eat too much Halloween candy! • The balloon distended when I blew air into it.

  3. Fecund: Adjective • To be fertile or productive • Zebra fish are fecund because they lay over 2000 eggs at a time! • Rabbits are often considered to be fecund.

  4. Sage: Noun, Adjective • A wise man, to gain wisdom through experience and reflection, wise • The sage helped me find the path to nirvana. • That is sage advice; I shall try to follow it.

  5. Vacuous: Adjective • Lacking ideas or intelligence • Frankly, your idea for the party is vacuous. • He had a vacuous look on his face when I asked him for directions.

  6. Deride: Verb • To insult or ridicule • The bullies derided the little boy because he was two feet shorter than them. • You should not deride people when they make mistakes.

  7. Assail: Verb • To attack with words or force • Please do not assail me in the hallway to ask about your grades! • The loud fireworks assailed my ears as I was trying to sleep.

  8. Benevolent: Adjective • Generous, kind • The benevolent gentleman gave the charity $5,000. • If you are benevolent, even when you don’t want to be, you will be rewarded.

  9. Scrutinize: Verb • To examine very carefully • You should carefully scrutinize a college before you apply. • Sherlock Holmes scrutinizes every clue he receives in order to solve a case.

  10. Histrionic: Adjective • Overly dramatic • You don’t have to be so histrionic; it was only a spider! • My sister is so histrionicabout everything that I’ve stopped listening to her.

  11. Didactic: Adjective • Intending to teach, morally instructive • Going to religious education classes is a didactic practice. • Teachers try to be didacticwith many of their lessons.

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