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Explore a diverse selection of vocabulary words essential for understanding public health and literature. This collection includes terms like "contagious," "epidemic," and "pandemic," which are crucial for discussing disease spread and its implications. Additionally, delve into literary concepts with words like "hyperbole," "assonance," and "genre." Each term is explained with its meaning and usage, providing a comprehensive resource for enhancing your vocabulary in both health and literary contexts.

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  1. Rate the vocabulary words… • Contagious • Epidemic • Impact • Internal • Resistance • Quarantine • Pandemic • Feasible • Convergence • Discredit

  2. Vocabulary Week #8 • Contagious • (adj) spreadable by touch or through the air • Epidemic • (n) rapid spread of a disease among many people • Impact • (n) an effect or result • Internal • (adj) inside of something; building, body, etc. • Resistance • (n) ability to fight off or overcome something • Quarantine • (n) strict isolation of someone/ something • Pandemic • (adj) spread throughout a country, continent or the world • Feasible • (adj) possible • Convergence • (n) separate elements (things) coming or joining together • Discredit • (v) harm the reputation, dishonor or disgrace

  3. Rate the vocabulary words… • Hyperbole • Denotation • Genre • Assonance • Apprehensive • Brevity • Cite • Elucidate • Ineffable • Magnanimous

  4. Vocabulary Week #9 • Hyperbole • (n) obvious exaggeration, ex. "wait for an eternity” • Denotation • (n) explicit or direct meaning of something • Genre • (n) kind, sort, style, category • Assonance • (adj) repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighboring words, ex. “I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless” • Apprehensive • (adj) anxious, fearful about the future • Brevity • (n) brief, short in time or duration • Cite • (v) to quote as an authority or example • Elucidate • (v) to make clear, to explain • Ineffable • (adj) cannot be described or expressed • Magnanimous • (adj) forgiving, unselfish

  5. Rate the vocabulary words… • Accentuate • Bane • Callous • Delve • Evasion • Fallacy • Grotesque • Idiom • Laborious • Malady

  6. Vocabulary Week #10 • Accentuate • (v) to emphasize, highlight importance • Bane • (n) curse, person or thing that ruins or spoils • Callous • (v) hard, unsympathetic, uncaring • Delve • (v) to investigate, search, dig • Evasion • (n) avoidance, escape • (v) evade • Fallacy • (n) misleading, false, deception • Grotesque • (adj) ugly, odd, bizarre, absurd • Idiom • (n) an expression that’s meaning is not literal - Ex. “All In The Same Boat” or “A Piece of Cake” • Laborious • (adj) requiring hard work and effort • Malady • (n) a disorder or disease

  7. Rate the vocabulary words… • Brusquely • Contemplate • Debris • Mimicked • Morose • Mottled • Stilted • Wearily • Bindle • Juncture

  8. Vocabulary Week #11 • Brusquely • (adj) to do quickly, rudely • Contemplate • (v) to think about for a period of time • Debris • (n) remains, pieces of • Mimicked (ing) • (v) to imitate or copy • Morose • (adj) to act in a sad, gloomy manner • Mottled • (adj) having a variety of colors like marble; cat or duck coloring • Stilted • (adj) stiffly dignified or formal • Wearily • (adv) tired; acting in a tired way • Bindle • (n) a bundle of items rolled up inside a blanket and carried over shoulder of back • Juncture • (n) place where two things come together

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