Vocabulary List : Fall #1

1) Expository  - intended to explain or describe 

• The students want to develop their creative and expository writing skills. 

2) Composition - the act of putting together or making up by combining parts or ingredients

• The Neighbors were curious about the composition of Lluvia's famous brownies.

3) Assuage - making something unpleasant less intense 

• The only way to assuage his pain was by icing his sprained  ankle.

4) Decadence - moral or cultural decline especially after a peak of achievement 

• Decadence is wild spending spree with credit cards when job security is very low.

5) Hackneyed - lacking significance through having been overused

• The phrase " I have a right to my own opinion" is a very hackneyed way to end an argument 

6) Coalition - an alliance for combined action, especially a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states

• The armies of the north formed a coalition to help defeat the southern aggressors.

7) Transcend - be or go beyond the range of limits

• The underlying message of the film is that love transcends everything else

8) Meritorious - deserving reward or praise

• The family decided to give the meritorious boy a reward for returning their lost dog.

9) Lurid - very vivid in color especially so as to create a very unpleasantly or unnatural effect

• The reporter wrote a lurid article about the gruesome murder. 

10) Petulant - childishly sulky or bad-tempered

• The child had a petulant reaction when his parents refused to buy him a new toy.