"From Ancient Greece..."

Mrs. Ortiz (United States of America)
Words 10 Honors students identified in Robin Tolmach Lakoff's New York Times column,"From Ancient Greece to Iraq, the Power of Words in Wartime"
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  1. combatant
    someone who fights or is fighting
  2. innate
    present at birth but not necessarily hereditary
  3. queasy
    causing or able to cause nausea
  4. contemptible
    deserving of scorn or disrespect
  5. etymological
    relating to the origins or development of words
  6. disparaging
    expressive of low opinion
  7. derisive
    expressing contempt or ridicule
  8. repugnant
    offensive to the mind
  9. derogatory
    expressive of low opinion
  10. pilgrimage
    a journey to a sacred place
  11. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  12. linguistic
    consisting of or related to language
  13. atrocity
    an act of shocking cruelty
  14. chasm
    a deep opening in the earth's surface
Created on Tue Aug 25 16:47:18 EDT 2015

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