(W6B) Vocab Review

Meander

• The team leader was a meander and led them out of the woods to safety.

• The course was meander and winding that drivers needed to maintain the advised speed limit.

• The Mississippi River meanders from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Contend

• Mail carriers sometimes have to contend with bothersome dogs.

• The contend at the match was fair and followed the rules.

• Be sure to act accordingly and contendly at the ceremony.

• None

Paraphernalia

• We accumulated so much paraphernalia that the closets couldn’t hold it all.

• Surrender your paraphernalia belongings and check in at the front desk.

• Your things have filled up my room that it is packed and paraphernalia in here.

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Hubbub

• Fans thronged onto the field in a hubbub of excitement when the Boston Red Sox won the pennant.

• The crowd grew furious, hubbub, and angry when their team was losing in the finals.

• Her behavior was irrational, extraneous, and hubbub.

• None

Adage

• Preparing to move again, I comforted myself with the adage “A rolling stone gathers no moss.”

• The adage spoke at the beginning of the ceremony and he told special quotes for everyone to relate with.

• The book distributed at the meetings were valuable and adage.

• None

Odoriferous

• The odoriferous truly filled the room that guests requested permission to be excused.

• The dog's toys were odoriferously smelly.

• Odoriferous fumes spewed from the truck’s exhaust.

• None

Wry

• She wrote and wried the by-laws in which this organization upholds.

• Do not distribute the wry until we have opened all of the dishes.

• He gave a wry smile as he admitted believing such a far-fetched tale.

• None

Sedentary

• The sedentary checks patients in at the front desk.

• Refrain from being the sedentary and lead at long meetings.

• Operating a computer is sedentary work.

• None

Extraneous

• Stop acting immature, it is extraneously unnecessary.

• When you revise your written instructions, eliminate any extraneous details.

• The coach was giving important and extraneous rules that every player needed to remember.

• None

Spartan

• We are the Spartans and leaders; we never give up!

• The Marine sergeant described the Spartan way of life as the recruit’s training camp.

• Soldiers killed the spartan for wrongfully invading the capital.

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