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Vocabulary Review: Words to Enhance Your Writing Skills

Boost your vocabulary with this mini review featuring words like culpable, status quo, modus operandi, and more. Learn their meanings and use them effectively in your writing to impress readers. Enhance your language skills now!

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Vocabulary Review: Words to Enhance Your Writing Skills

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  1. Vocabulary Quiz 4 Mini Review (Because Ms. Landon loves you)

  2. Culpable • Culpable = blamable • The guilty culprit was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

  3. Status quo • Status Quo = the way things are • Status Quo = Stays the same

  4. Modus operandi • Modus Operandi = mode of operation • Motorcycle Randy – Randy’s mode of operation or habit is to ride his cool motorcycle everywhere.

  5. Surreptitious • Surreptitious = sneaky or stealthy

  6. Desecrate • Desecrate = disrespect a sacred place • Desecrate = destruction and destroy

  7. Anathema • Anathema = someone or something that is hated • Math is an anathema to me.

  8. Avarice • Avarice = greed • Driven by avarice, my sister ate all of the rice!

  9. Mitigate • Mitigate = alleviate (reduce/lessen)

  10. Beneficent • Beneficent = generous • If you are a beneficent person, you do things to benefit others.

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