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    This document contains 20 vocabulary words with their part of speech and definitions. It includes words like bellicose meaning eager to fight, benefactor meaning a financial supporter, and benighted meaning ignorant. Other words are benign meaning kindly, bigot meaning intolerant, and bizarre meaning strangely unusual. The document provides examples of how each word can be used in a sentence to demonstrate its meaning.

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    This document contains 20 vocabulary words with their part of speech and definitions. It includes words like bellicose meaning eager to fight, benefactor meaning a financial supporter, and benighted meaning ignorant. Other words are benign meaning kindly, bigot meaning intolerant, and bizarre meaning strangely unusual. The document provides examples of how each word can be used in a sentence to demonstrate its meaning.

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    This document contains 20 vocabulary words with their part of speech and definitions. It includes words like bellicose meaning eager to fight, benefactor meaning a financial supporter, and benighted meaning ignorant. Other words are benign meaning kindly, bigot meaning intolerant, and bizarre meaning strangely unusual. The document provides examples of how each word can be used in a sentence to demonstrate its meaning.

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    Tristan Strom

    Ms. Stronks
    ELA 8
    Vocab #9
    1. Bellicose: Adjective- inclined or eager to fight
    The bellicose man walked around the bar asking to brawl.
    2. Benefactor: Noun- a person who makes a bequest or endowment, as to an
    institution
    The companys benefactor helped them to thrive in their business.
    3. Benighted: Adjective- intellectually or morally ignorant or unenlightened
    A very long time ago, the people were benighted as they couldnt tell
    right from wrong.
    4. Benign: Adjective- having a kindly disposition
    She decided to have a conversation with the nice, benign man.
    5. Bigot: Noun- a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or
    opinion
    The only bigot in the room is easily noticeable and not many people have
    spoken to him.
    6. Bizarre: Adjective- outrageously or whimsically strange
    She is quite the bizarre person as shes now walking around with a squid
    plush on her head.
    7. Blatant: Adjective- brazenly obvious
    The woman stared at him in shock as he finally confessed his blatant love
    for her.
    8. Bleak: Adjective- bare, desolate, and often windswept
    She gazed around, taking in her bleak surroundings.
    9. Blithe: Adjective- joyous, merry, or cheerful indisposition
    She was blithe in her actions and general happiness for the season.
    10. Boon: Noun- something to be thankful for
    On Thanksgiving he was grateful for his many boons.
    11. Breach: Noun- the leap of a whale above the surface of the water
    When we were in Alaska we didnt see any whales breach but we saw
    quite a few flukes.
    12. Brisk: Adjective- quick and active
    I went out on a brisk jog this morning and enjoyed the cool air.
    13. Cache: Noun- a hiding place, especially one in the ground, for things
    We store all of our finest wines in our cache in the basement.
    14. Candid: Adjective- free from reservation, disguise, or subterfuge
    The school photographer took a candid photo of the group eating for the
    yearbook.
    15. Capacious: Adjective- capable of holding much
    That is a very capacious container and it can store a lot of food.
    16. Capricious: Adjective- subject to, led by, or indicating a sudden, odd notion or
    unpredictable change
    She is such a stable and reliable person that I didnt expect for her twin to
    be so capricious.
    17. Capsize: Verb- to turn bottom up
    The infamous ship, the Titanic, did not capsize, it just sank.
    18. Cascade: Noun- anything that resembles or is a waterfall
    The was a cascade of vines hanging down off the wall.
    19. Chaff: Noun- the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing

    Tristan Strom
    Ms. Stronks
    ELA 8
    The chaffs of corn are what we take off to be able to cook and eat the
    corn.
    20. Chastise: Verb- to criticize severely
    He was chastising her about the clothes she was wearing as to him they
    were inappropriate.

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