The man went to the oracle, and received an enigma saying, “ going west, is going east. And
going east is going west.” The man was very puzzled by this.
Enigma
The girl augmented the balloon to increase its size.
Augment
The poison was pernicious. The girl was told not to drink it.
Pernicious
In Academic Decathlon, we are learning how to do an impromptu. So we can do it at the competition off-
hand.
IMPROMPTU
Bart Simpson got in trouble for plagiarizing Iraq reports.
Plagiarism
20 Vocabulary Sentences
BY MADISON BRICE
The sick girl became emaciate when she got sick.
Emaciate
The mother lived vicariously through her daughter
because there was a lot of things she wished she could
do as a teen.
Vicarious
The officious secretary gave everyone that came into the office advice, even if they did not want it.
Officious
The ambiguity of the teacher’s instructions made it very difficult to understand exactly what she wanted.
AMBIGUITY
The egregious remarks from the politician caused him to be removed from the elections
because his beliefs were outrageous.Egregious
The ersatz sugar was bad imitation of the real thing because it was artificial.
ERSATZ
The googol is an insane number because it is such a large number.
Googol
The woman had serendipity when it came to knowing how to make lots of money.
Serendipity
To answer that the sky is blue is a non-sequitur response to the question,
“What’s up?”.
Non-Sequitur
San Francisco is considered a microcosm.
microcosm
The redundancy in the story made it
boring to read because it
repeated itself.
redundancy
Jack Sparrow was disparaged from his position for refusing to follow orders from
a ranking officer.
disparage
The dearth during the depression as the worst the United States had ever seen.
dearth
The tentative schedule for the rock
tour will be posted online until
everything gets confirmed.
Tentative
Harry and Hermonine made a furtive plan to save Serious from certain death.
furtive