Unit 1: Week 2

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  1. brand
    burn with an iron to indicate ownership; of animals
    Rose and her pa spent the whole next day sorting the animals that had not been branded.
  2. construct
    make by combining materials and parts
    She constructed a thunderbolt as black as pitch to punctuate her name.
  3. devastation
    the state of being decayed or destroyed
    Calmly Rose spoke out loud to the storm as she stood alone to face the wrack and ruin, the multiplying devastation.
  4. dainty
    affectedly refined
    In a moment’s time, Rose did, and quite daintily so.
  5. resourceful
    adroit or imaginative
    Her ma was right grateful to have such a resourceful child.
  6. lullaby
    a quiet song intended to help a child go to sleep
    Overcome with that love, they lifted their voices in song, an old song and a melody so sweet and true—a lullaby passed down from the ages, echoing since the beginning of time.
  7. thieve
    take unlawfully; steal
    “Somebody had to put a stop to their thieving ways.”
  8. pitch
    a dark heavy viscid substance obtained as a residue
    She constructed a thunderbolt as black as pitch to punctuate her name.
  9. vein
    a blood vessel that carries blood toward the heart
    They say this just accentuated the fact that the child had the power of thunder and lightning coursing through her veins.
  10. homonym
    a word pronounced or spelled the same with another meaning
    Homonyms are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
  11. predicate
    the constituent of a sentence containing the verb
    The predicate tells what the subject is or does.
  12. idiom
    expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
    An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the ordinary meaning of the words that form it.
Created on Thu Jul 16 12:26:12 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Jul 20 14:29:53 EDT 2020)

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