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Understanding Key Vocabulary Terms and Their Usage in Context

This resource provides an in-depth look at essential vocabulary terms related to various contexts, including descriptions and examples. Learn about words such as "conscientiously," "interject," and "digression," along with their meanings and applications. Explore related prefixes like "inter-" and "intra-" to enhance your language skills. Understand how to recognize base words, roots, and the nuances of terminology, improving your comprehension and communication abilities in both academic and everyday settings.

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Understanding Key Vocabulary Terms and Their Usage in Context

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  1. Vocabulary 1 Using context clues

  2. Brink • Edge of a cliff; beginning point; edge

  3. Chronology • Arrangement of events in time; time line

  4. Conscientiously • Dutifully, carefully, following good moral conduct; efficiently

  5. Disperse • Scatter in different directions

  6. Muted • Toned down; softened; muffled

  7. Obliterate • Totally erase or destroy; remove

  8. Permeate • Spread; diffuse; to seep through

  9. Precipitous • Extremely steep

  10. Subtle • Difficult to detect, elusive, delicate

  11. Zealously • Passionately, sincerely, enthusiastically

  12. Vocabulary 2 Prefixes inter- and intra-

  13. Intercom • Device for communicating between rooms

  14. Interject • Insert between two other things

  15. Interlaced • Lacing together; intermixed

  16. Intermediary • Person who acts as a go-between, especially to settle differences

  17. Intermittent • Stopping and starting at intervals

  18. Interplay • Back-and-forth action; action and reaction

  19. Interrogate • Question formally

  20. Intramural • Within an institution

  21. Intrastate • Within a single state

  22. Intravenous • Within or into a vein

  23. Vocabulary 3 Recognizing base words and roots

  24. Digression • Turning away from the main subject when speaking or writing; deviation from the central theme

  25. Dispassionate • Devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; unaffected by strong personal emotions; fair; free from or unaffected by passion

  26. Disposition • Mental outlook or mood; predominant or prevailing tendency of one’s spirits; usual emotional response; manner; inclination

  27. Infamous • Having a bad reputation; disgraceful; being famous for being bad; detestable; shamefully bad

  28. Protracted • Drawn out or lengthened in time; prolonged; to extend or protrude

  29. Regress • Move backward; return to a previous, usually worse state; to go back to childhood; go back; to revert to an earlier or less advanced state or form

  30. Retort • Answer in a quick or biting manner; a person’s verbal retaliation in a fight; to reply sharply

  31. Systematic • According to a system, method, or plan; thorough and regular; relating to the classifying of species

  32. Torsion • Twisting or turning

  33. Traction • Act of drawing or pulling; pulling power; the adhesive friction of a body on some surface

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