definitions, parts of speech, and example sentences
DESCRIPTION
To Cauterize (verb) DEF: To make insensible (by burning or freezing). RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH: Cauterization, noun EX. SENTENCE: “Something was killed in your breast, burnt out, cauterized out.”TRANSCRIPT
Vocabulary list 8Definitions, Parts of Speech, and Example
Sentences
To Cauterize (verb)
DEF: To make insensible (by burning or freezing).
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Cauterization, noun
EX. SENTENCE: “Something was killed in your breast, burnt out, cauterized out.”
To Prevaricate (verb)DEF: To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information. To deviate from the truth
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Prevarication, noun
EX. SENTENCE: During the hearings the witness was willing to prevaricate in order to protect his friend, even though he was under oath to tell the whole truth.
To Writhe (verb)
DEF: To react to pain by moving and twisting about uncontrollably.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
n/a
EX. SENTENCE: Winston could see Julia on the floor, writhing in pain from the blow to her stomach.
To Flit (Verb)
DEF: To move rapidly and lightly. To skim or dart about.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
n/a
EX. SENTENCE: “His eyes flitted around the walls, as if he half expected to find a window somewhere.”
Fallacy (Noun)
DEF: A false or mistaken idea.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Fallacious, adj.
Fallaciously, adv.
EX. SENTENCE: The fallacies of the Party could never be proven because all the documents that could prove the lies had been destroyed.
Premonitory (Adj.)
DEF: Warning of future misfortune
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Premonitorily, adv.
EX. SENTENCES: The volcano created a tremble in the earth, which some scientists believe is a premonitory sign of an inevitable catastrophic eruption.
To Grovel (Verb)
DEF: To show submission or fear. To cower.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
n/a
EX. SENTENCE: “He felt the smash of truncheons on his elbows and iron-shod boots on his shins; he saw himself groveling on the floor, screaming for mercy through broken teeth.”
Sanctimonious (Adj)
DEF: Excessively or hypocritically pious or devout.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Sanctimoniously, adv. Sanctimoniousness, nounEX. SENTENCE: Some politicians sanctimoniously criticize others for engaging in immoral activity while themselves engaging in such activities in private.
Malleable (Adj)
DEF: Easily influence or shaped.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Malleability, noun
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: The Party takes advantage of the malleability of people in order to shape them to believe exactly what the Party wants them to believe.
Sinecure (noun)
DEF: An office or position (normally a government job) that requires little or no work but provides enough income to live.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
n/aEX. SENTENCE: In order to keep his opponents quiet, the ruler gave them sinecures for which they would be indebted to him.