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The Pigman Vocabulary -Chapters 1 & 2-. Directions. For each vocab word, look at the picture and example sentences. Make a guess with your partner about the definition. When shown the correct definition, put it in your vocabulary notes. Avocation.
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Directions • For each vocab word, look at the picture and example sentences. • Make a guess with your partner about the definition. • When shown the correct definition, put it in your vocabulary notes.
Avocation • Playing soccer is my favorite avocation, but I also like to cook.
Avocation • Noun • A hobby
Excruciating • My broken arm was excruciating until they gave me pain medicine.
Excruciating • Adjective • Intensely painful
Raunchy • The joke he told me was too raunchy to tell my mom. CENSORED
Rauncy • Adjective • Dirty or obscene; rude
Subliminal • Because of her subliminal desire to own a dog, she began walking by the pet store on the way home.
Subliminal • Adjective • Existing in the unconscious or subconscious
Repress ??? • The memory was too painful, so she had to repress it.
Repress • Verb • To purposefully forget
Assert • He continues to assert that his girlfriend goes to another school even though we know he doesn’t have one.
Assert • Verb • To state positively, claim
Infantile • He was embarrassed by his friend’s infantile behavior at the school dance.
Infantile • Adjective • Childish, immature
Compulsive • I had the compulsive urge to pick the lint off her shirt.
Compulsive • Adjective • Not able to be stopped; irresistible
Impressionable • Her mom told her not to cuss in front of her impressionable younger brother.
Impressionable • Adjective • Easily influenced
Mortified • I was mortified when my brother read my diary out loud to his friends.
Mortified • Adject • Extremely embarrassed