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Word Master Fall 2013 Words 1-15 8th grade

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  1. peccadillo
    a petty misdeed
    Her contribution to Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth might have been designed to draw out our cultural peccadillos.
  2. usurp
    seize and take control without authority
    Open, it's shaping up as a lousy tournament for young stars looking to usurp the game's established greats.
  3. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
    "The civil rights issue is not an ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo," King said.
  4. maelstrom
    a powerful circular current of water
    He also inherited a maelstrom that had been building in Queens.
  5. garner
    acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
    The leak was published to garner attention before any serious security breach could have been made, he/she said. Forbes (Oct 18, 2013)
  6. pliant
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
    Early years, in which the human being is naturally susceptible, build up by imitation, by pliant obedience, an image, a system, reproducing the immediate surroundings. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
  7. cadence
    the accent in a metrical foot of verse
    Next generation smartphone graphics is on an annual cadence, not the 8 years pace game consoles are on.  Forbes (Mar 25, 2013)
  8. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
    Within one week of returning to work, however, all the feelings of renewal dissipated.
  9. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
    Though he has proven a mercurial ally since he took office in 2001, Karzai is, at least, a known entity.
  10. cant
    a sloping edge where two surfaces meet at a non-right angle
    Woods was trying to figure out how much the ball would run along the canted fairways in dry conditions. Seattle Times (Jun 11, 2013)
  11. muster
    summon up, call forth, or bring together
    Technology companies mustered great enthusiasm in recent years over paying for things with smartphones, promising it would be easier and more useful than credit cards.
  12. diaphanous
    so thin as to transmit light
    While the more structured, usually daytime, looks were in heavier fabrics, evening or playtime came in airier, diaphanous materials like chiffon and tulle. Seattle Times (Sep 19, 2012)
  13. bauble
    cheap showy jewelry or ornament
    Known as the jewel of Manhattan, Central Park is quite a hefty bauble, with more land mass than Monaco.
  14. coalesce
    fuse or cause to come together
    On average, three hurricanes coalesce in the Atlantic by Sept. Scientific American (Sep 12, 2013)
  15. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
    But such tests also may well raise fractious privacy and social equity issues.
Created on Mon Nov 04 14:27:12 EST 2013 (updated Mon Nov 04 14:27:58 EST 2013)

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