Monday, October 31, 2011

Vocab Set


Overkill
Words for Going too Far
Due Friday, November 4

1.     ebullience
2.     effusive
3.     egregiously
4.     flagrant
5.     frenetic
6.     gratuitous
7.     superfluous

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  1. The paragraph has a lot of superfluous sentences that need to be cut.

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  2. I hope missing so many days of school to go to New York will not be an egregious mistake.

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  3. The elephant in the room was so flagrant that I’m surprised nobody noticed.

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  4. When you spend a lot of money at a fancy shop, sometimes a gratuitous box of chocolates will be thrown in.

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  5. A child with a toy is effusive at a young age; a guy watching football is effusive at an old age.

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  6. She was filled with frenetic energy when she was cleaning the house when her birth mom was coming over.

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  7. The fire was flagrant, but very beautiful.

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  8. Few student council functions are essential; most are superfluous tax-wasters.

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  9. I became utterly frenetic when my laptop shut down; I paced around ludicrously as I pondered how I would finish my essay.

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  10. Tom's flagrant and public use of the "F-word" left his family too embarrassed to even be seen with him.

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  11. The apocalypse survivors frenetically scoured the run-down stores for any remains of food.

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  12. Little Rosebud danced with adorable ebullience down by the lake side.

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  13. The pimple on his nose was flagrant; I couldn’t stop looking at it.

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  14. The basketball player was ejected from the game for being called for a flagrant foul.

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  15. His well-crafted essay became masked by his egregious capitalization errors.

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  16. He told me that I was superfluous when I turned in my map two days early with liberal amounts of bright color.

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  17. The young woman wore a cocktail dress in a flagrant floral print to the party.

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  18. The kid was in great ebullience after having received a Twix candy bar during his trick-or-treating.

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  19. With three minutes to spare in class, I was frenetically trying to finish my inquiry.

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  20. Unashamed, the three bagpipers performed their jig with ebullience.

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  21. The superfluous CGI effects make Godzilla thoroughly enjoyable to watch.

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  22. Hoping to stand out at the troupe meeting, Suzie Lou was clad egregiously in a bedazzled Girl Scout's uniform.

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  23. My love of Gordon Goodwin is flagrant whilst I am listening to their music.

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  24. When Toni-Lee walked in the meeting with a glitter girl scout uniform, Suzy-Lou and the other girls ostracized her and her freaky flagrant fashion choice.

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  25. The frenetic behavior of the crowd at the college fair overwhelmed me. It was then when I realized that the pursuit of an affordable college education is a costly battle.

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  26. Ariel being a very ebullient girl, harshed my mellow vibe.

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  27. I felt ebullient when I read my acceptance email from Oregon State University.

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  28. All of John's friends found his termination from the force to be gratuitous- they thought he was the best cop at the precinct.

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  29. She eagerly expressed her ebullience at the amusement park.

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  30. The superfluous amount of flute players makes it hard to stand out while trying out for college bands.

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  31. It may be superfluous to mention it, but don't drive after drinking alcohol.

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  32. A feeling of ebullience swept over Mabel as she looked at the new kitchen utensils that had come in the mail for her.

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  33. The young man flung gratuitous insults at the waiter who messed up his order.

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  34. Thanksgiving is a time for gratuitous piles of food to be eaten.

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  35. This post will be superfluous to my grade, since it is late, but it will help me learn.

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