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English, 28.01.2020 05:31 sierra6816

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write a story using all of the following vocabulary words once;

deft - neatly skillful and quick in one's movements

extemporizing - compose, perform, or produce something such as music or a speech without preparation; improvise

incredulously - unwilling or unable to believe something

strident - loud and harsh

supercilious - looking or behaving as though one thinks one is superior to others

contiguous - sharing a common border; touching

hauteur - disdainful pride (arrogance)

incessant - continuing without pause or interruption (of something regarded as unpleasant)

ex: ceaseless

defunct - no longer existing or function

harrowed - cause distress to

nebulous - in the form of a cloud or haze (hazy)

serf - an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.

vestige - a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists

dilatory - slow to act

staid - sedate, respectable, and unadventurous (proper)

turgid - swollen

portentous - of or like a portent (ominous / threatening)

precipitously - very steeply

prig - a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others

truculent - eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant

fortuitously - by chance rather than intention (lucky chance)

redolent - strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something

adventitious - happening or carried on according to chance rather than design or inherent nature (unplanned)

commensurate - corresponding in size or degree; in proportion

synonym: equivalent

***the story does not have to be good, just needs the vocabulary in it***

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