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Empower Your Vocabulary: Learn and Use 8 Enriching Words

Discover the meanings and contexts of 8 sophisticated words to enhance your language skills. Understand terms like efficacious, catharsis, and more, and be prepared to use them effectively in your conversations and writing.

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Empower Your Vocabulary: Learn and Use 8 Enriching Words

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  1. Lesson Four Vocab

  2. Efficacious • Effective, producing the desired outcome. • The sign on the lawn that read “Beware of Dog” in bright red lettering was remarkably efficacious at keeping away solicitors.

  3. Catharsis • A release of emotional tension • The conclusion of Handel’s Messiah offers an exultant catharsis that listeners say often strengthens their faith in the divine.

  4. Inundate • To overwhelm, to fill beyond capacity • News of Joe and Michelle’s engagement caused their respective email inboxes to be inundated with congratulatory messages.

  5. Revere • To regard with respect, awe, or admiration • I enjoy taking time on Wednesday afternoons to visit the chapel close to my house and revere the Blessed Sacrament.

  6. Internecine • Mutually destructive • The two rival cyclists engaged in an internecine use of blood doping in the competition, and both were disqualified for their illegal efforts to defeat the other.

  7. Risible • Relating to laughter, laughable • Watching Turner, the silly dog, lope in and out of the piles of leaves with his tongue hanging out was a risible scene.

  8. Sybaritic • Marked by luxury or pleasure • Las Vegas promotes its hotels by promising a sybaritic getaway that treats the vacationer to a multitude of enjoyments.

  9. Crepuscular • Pertaining to twilight • The painting showed a farmhouse and a wagon in the fading light of day, and Katya always found the crepuscular picture calming.

  10. Kudos • Acclaim or praise • I offered my kudos to Peter, the gold medal winner, for his impressive performance in the 10K race.

  11. Estrange • To alienate • The lack of communication between Barbara and David led the friends to become estranged after David moved to Nevada.

  12. Intrinsic • Of or relating to a thing’s basic nature, inherent • It must be an intrinsic urge in some people to climb mountains, as there are personalities who simply will not be deterred from the risky pastime.

  13. Maxim • An established principle; a truth or rule of conduct • A good maxim to live by is “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” a great maxim to live by is “love your mother and leave only footprints.”

  14. Putrid • Rotten and foul smelling • The trash gave off a putrid scent, and Megan looked at Seymour with a frank expression on her face. “It’s your turn to take out the trash, Seymour.”

  15. Apocryphal • Of questionable authenticity, but widely believed • Besides the Gospels, several books that claim to be true accounts of Jesus Christ were apocrypha to early Christians.

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