Friday, December 2, 2011

Vocab X (Malcom's Distant Cousin)


Sittin’ on the Fence
Words for the Indecisive
Due Friday, 12/9

1.     Ambiguous
2.     Ambivalent
3.     Apathetic
4.     Arbitrary
5.     Capricious
6.     Equivocate
7.     Indifferent
8.     Spontaneous
9.     Whimsical


It’s a Small World, After All
Words for the Insignificant

10.  Inconsequential
11.  Superficial
12.  Tenuous
13.  Trivial

36 comments:

  1. My mom was feeling spontaneous, so my family packed and went to the beach for the day.

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  2. Grills, these days, are so superficial: always focusing on becoming the hottest, attracting all the men, and, of course, having the greatest accessories.

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  3. The several days of analysis left the researchers with ambiguous results.

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  4. Kline seems to appreciate my whimsical, off-the-wall vocab titles.

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  5. My need to carry around my pocket sized science facts book is not trivial.

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  6. She secretly really liked her best friend, but was ambivalent about persuing something more.

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  7. It seems I am around more capricious people at an amusement park than anywhere else.

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  8. I did not care how she felt about our predicament; I was fine with the superficial smile of condolence.

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  9. I'm ambivalent towards Christmas; it's a nice holiday, but I have to spend it with my dingy family.

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  10. The new Lang kids craft tenuous vocabulary sentences while Vets reminisce about them, some spontaneously decided to join in. The mind is so capricious, forgetting the stress and longing for the community which once held different priority.

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  11. He seemed to live on an arbitrary eating schedule.

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  12. My mom is so capricious—I never know how she’ll react.

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  13. Firing the gun into the air seemed inconsequential, until I read the paper the next day.

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  14. His lie was tenuous, but Anna believed it anyway.

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  15. She had no passion for animal’s rights; she was apathetic towards the subject.

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  16. When I am a senator, I will never equivocate too answer questions.

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  17. The court’s arbitrary decision forced me to make fancy gourmet pastries for the rest of my eyeless existence.

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  18. I spontaneously decided to see the play on wednesday instead of friday.

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  19. Our chemistry teacher always puts ambiguous questions on the test—making it more thoughtful.

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  20. The story she told was inconsequential and ignored.

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  21. Bertha spontaneously stood up in the middle of class and began singing a song about bacteria.

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  22. The student gave an ambiguous answer which caused a long class discussion.

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  23. The student gave an ambiguous answer which caused a long class discussion.

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  24. They ask me if I like spontaneity or romance, so I reply with spontaneous romance.

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  25. The small boy felt inconsequential to the basketball game.

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  26. The stubborn man did not want to be bothered with such trivial questions.

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  27. Willy Wonka was a whimsical weirdo.

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  28. The toddler babbled trivial inquiries to his mother.

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  29. The young boy's grade portrayed his tenuous project.

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  30. In biology I have only made a superficial dent into what there is to learn.

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  31. The spontaneous road trip to Wyoming made me leap out of pure joy.

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  32. My capricious best friend will go from reading a book to throwing stuff at the wall and back again in a matter of seconds.

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  33. I thought that adding on “+C” to the end of an integrated function was a trivial step, so I omitted it. I was proved wrong when it appeared as my test score.

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  34. My apathy is the cause for this nearly late comment.

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  35. This post is so late that it may be completely inconsequential.

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  36. She didn't want to lie, but she couldn't tell the truth, so she gave an equivocated answer.

    I keep doing my Vocab several days before it's due and completely forget about posting to the blog! :/

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