Friday, December 9, 2011

Vocab Eleven (pun suggestions welcome)


I Will Survive
Words for the Strong Willed
Due Friday, December 16

1.     Assiduous
2.     Compelling
3.     Diligent
4.     Dogged
5.     Endure
6.     Intrepid
7.     Maverick
8.     Obdurate
9.     Obstinate
10.  Proliferate
11.  Tenacity
12.  Vitality

32 comments:

  1. The obdurate grave keeper slowly lowered the coffin into the ground as mourners looked on.

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  2. Very few players not only have the talent, but also the tenacity to go hard in practice or games.

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  3. I diligently keep calling myself J-Dog--even though it wasn't catching on.

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  4. The grueling two-hour lecture I was forced to endure in U.S. History made me question why I had signed up for the class.

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  5. The proliferation of car accidents amongst high schoolers is nothing but expected with the accumulation of distractions and lack of experience.

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  6. I pleaded and pleaded, but she was obdurate with her decision to leave her family behind and move to Australia.

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  7. Brimming with slightly rancid vitality, my aunt's casserole reminded me of The Blob.

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  8. Mel was a tenacious vegetarian; she worked at a Nascar rally all summer serving fried chicken and never once swayed from her ways.

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  9. The student to teacher ratio proliferated.

    Katie M- I love your creative sentences, I wish I could think of better ones. :)

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  10. Mr Kline, here is a suggested pun: Vocab Elven (tis the season for Elves) :)

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  11. Erika, there's only one possible response:

    Ho ho ho!

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  12. I have to endure countless hours of homework after being sick.

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  13. I felt her tenacity as I tried to express my opinions; she shut them out as soon as I opened them up.

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  14. Sinthea’s assiduous singing left her surroundings swaying in endless rhythm.

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  15. The Safari rocket project required dogged determination, and of course, lots of money.

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  16. The obstinate child didn’t do anything he was told to do and was very rude.

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  17. Once she sat down at the computer, she worked diligently on her essay for hours.

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  18. I was an obdurate ballerina—which is why I was kicked out.

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  19. NASA employed its assiduous team to construct something new: a space-able teddy bear.

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  20. My intrepid father plunged into the water as my brother and I stared over the edge peeing our pants.

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  21. I wasn't positive on how to use tenacity in a sentence. Did I use it correctly?

    Howard showed great tenacity in the face of the neighborhood bully.

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  23. The flutes seem to be extremely tenacious when it comes to tuning, but all instruments seem fairly obstinate in their articulation.

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  24. The doctors compelling argument made Santa realize that he needed to stop eating so many cookies.

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  25. He was a hardworker, diligent, and honest; therefore he got the job.

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  26. Through the crowd was the maverick— he sat in a tin bucket, yodeling the most glorious yodels ever to grace the boy’s ears.

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  27. She told me I’d be obese by the time I was eighteen, but I was obstinate and continued eating my fries.

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  28. The intrepid cliff jumper had no limits.

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  29. Her tenacity towards the importance of art education was palpable to those around her.

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  30. I was obstinate in burying my brother, despite the legal threats used against me.

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  31. Patty worked diligently on her homework until the early hours of the morning.

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  32. The teacher said she earned a good grade because of how diligent of a student she was.

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