Matzka noun a tirade a long pompous speech harangue People stopped listening after the first five minutes of his awful selfabsorbed harangue adj habitually engaged in licentious or ID: 760461
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Vocab Words Week 2
Mr
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Matzka
Slide2(noun) a tirade; a long pompous speech
harangue
People stopped listening after the first five minutes of his awful, self-absorbed
harangue
.
Slide3(adj) habitually engaged in licentious or lewed practices
immoral
Sue is being judged because of the
immoral
activities in which she takes part in on the weekends.
Slide4(adj) having the nature or form of a question
interrogative
Rhetorical questions are
interrogative
even if they don’t require an answer.
Slide5(noun) a loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principle outer garment in Japan
kimono
The women wore very intricate
kimonos
at the traditional Japanese celebration.
Slide6(noun) gentlemen
messieurs
The boys acted like real
messieurs
throughout the entirety of the prom.
Slide7(noun) mule driver
muleteer
Before the invention of the automobile, companies used to pay the
muleteer
to carry their goods.
Slide8(noun) a traditional form or customary act
observance
Many cultures do not believe in driving on Saturdays in order to keep the
observance
of the Sabbath.
Slide9(verb) to stretch out too far
overreach
It is customary to see many baseball
players
overreach
for a ball and hurt themselves in the process.
Slide10(verb) to walk about
perambulate
It was decided that I needed to
perambulate
in order to relieve the cramp that I had in my foot.
Slide11(noun) one who gives a pledge
pledgeor
Steve was our biggest
pledgeor
of the day; he offered to give five dollars for every mile walked.
Slide12(noun) thwarting; opposing successfully
prevention
His
prevention
of the accident was accredited to his paying attention while driving.
Slide13(noun) a systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing, and personal habits
regimen
My daily
regimen
consists of taking vitamins with my breakfast.
Slide14(noun) nonsense
rigmarole
I cannot tolerate the constant
rigmarole
that takes place during every class.
Slide15(noun) separation
severance
The
severance
between the two boys was a good thing because each is getting much better grades.
Slide16(adjective) rigid
stringent
The rules that the soccer team developed were
stringent
but very reasonable.