The Synonym & Antonym Word Encounters used these 12 selected words from Session #135-Level 3:

demise, emissary, incorrigible, insurrection, intermittent, ostensible, ostentatious, portend, rectify, regalia, remission, tenuous

The sentences below reinforce your further understanding of six of these words.

1. Isn't it pleasant to sit outdoors in Maine to listen to the INTERMITTENT sounds of the cicadas as they happily churp with irregular beats of sound?

2. Not a single customer liked the OSTENTATIOUS display of garish colors and innumerable items arrayed in a most outlandish and distasteful manner.

3. If a student acts in an INCORRIGIBLE manner, he will be disciplined for that specific and, perhaps, reprehensible behavior.

4. Due to the DEMISE in usage of the Susan B. Anthony $1 dollar coin, the Treasury Department has decided to try a new look with the $1.00 Sacagawea coin.

5. Please RECTIFY this billing error as soon as possible so I will not be overcharged for my medecine!

6. It was clearly a worrisome and TENUOUS situation when the Red Cross heliocopter landed in the buffeting winds so the injured climbers could be rescued.

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