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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Vocabulary #3


  • If you're going to follow through with something, see it all the way through, don't become an apostate.
  • The young musician sang with such an effusive passion and confidence that he had the crowd hanging on his every word.
  • There was no way over , under or around this predicament, we had reached an impasse.
  • After being distressed for so long, it was hard to distinguish if this was a feeling of true euphoria or the real thing.
  • I have always disliked funeral ceremonies, there were always lugubrious and dismal.
  • Dean displayed a fuming bravado when he was confronted with saving his brother and himself from this difficult situation.
  • If the odds were in Sam's favor, the council would come to a consensus and vote him as president.
  • Be careful with the way you phrase your words because it sounds like you're creating a false dichotomy.
  • His bandages constricted his blood flow causing him to lose feeling in his left arm, so he had to get them readjusted.
  • The church had origins of Gothic architecture.
  • I would rather work freely  on my own time than work with strictness and punctilio
  • Becoming an adult and living on our own is a challenge and metamorphosis of it's own.
  • Being a great raconteur is truly a gift, you have the ability to charm and captivate others with your way of speaking.
  • You cannot forget the cake, it is a sine qua non of every birthday party! 
  • No one would stand up to take on this dangerous and quixotic quest to save their land against the dragon.
  • She was set on going on a vendetta to avenge her husband's death.
  • You just made a non sequitur interjection that has no relevance to this conversation whatsoever.
  • Cheyenne had that kind of mystique that said you don't know me and you never will.
  • He had the tendency to bury himself deep into quagmire and refused any help besides his own to get out of it.
  • My family was not always well-off, we used to be on the brink of parlous desperation to make ends meet.

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