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Understanding Vocabulary: Adoption, Anguish, and More

This vocabulary lesson explores key terms such as "Adopt," which means to choose to follow a plan, and "Anguish," describing deep suffering, often physical. Other words studied include "Self-Conscious," indicating embarrassment in social settings, and "Blemish," referring to a mark on the skin. The lesson further highlights "Crisis," a time of trouble, "Maternal," linked to one's mother, "Rival," a competitor, "Immature," reflecting childlike behavior, and "Intolerable," which denotes unbearable conditions. This comprehensive exploration enhances overall language proficiency.

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Understanding Vocabulary: Adoption, Anguish, and More

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  1. VOCABULARY TEST 17

  2. ADOPT: I decided to adopt my mother’s plan. It was easier to take out the trash than get grounded.

  3. ADOPT: To choose to follow.

  4. ANGUISH: I felt great anguish because I had a very bad cold .

  5. ANGUISH: to suffer.

  6. SELF-CONSCIOUS: He felt very self-conscious when the girls laughed at him.

  7. SELF-CONSCIOUS: embarrassed in the presence of others.

  8. BLEMISH: He had a blemish from a car accident.

  9. BLEMISH: a mark or scar on the skin.

  10. CRISIS: Hurricane Katrina caused a crisis in New Orleans.

  11. CRISIS: a time of great danger or trouble.

  12. Maternal: Baldness is usually passed through a maternal parent.

  13. Maternal: inherited from one’s mother.

  14. RIVAL: The Boston Redsox have one rival, it is the New York Yankees.

  15. RIVAL: A competitor.

  16. IMMATURE: Sometimes children can be really immature.

  17. IMMATURE: not fully grown, childlike.

  18. INTOLERABLE: The parent found the child’s screaming during dinner intolerable.

  19. INTOLERABLE: to painful or cruel to be endured.

  20. INHABIT: The bugs decided to inhabit the large peach.

  21. INHABIT: to live in.

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