Did you get last week vocabulary words? Next week will be the final week of these weekly vocabulary words. Use these words to break out from your usual vocabulary and show others. Use theses while talking or writing an essay. Make sure to use them correctly. Reference the sentences below to make sure you do.
Word: Assuage
uh-sweyj
Part of speech: Verb
Definition: To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
After his sister’s goldfish died, he tried to assuage her sorrow by buying her favorite movie.
Word: Decipher
dih-sahy-fer
Part of speech: Verb
Definition: To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
When she reads Shakespeare, she was to decipher the words.
Word: Grandeur
gran-jer
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: The quality of being grand or admirably great.
They officials asked for the grandeur of the family but a lowly peasant came out instead.
Word: Magnanimous
mag-nan-uh-muh
s
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: Generous in treating or judging others.
Usually no one would forgive others, but she was magnanimous.
Word: Sufferance
suhf-er-uhns
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: Toleration.
The girl’s sufferance made her seem invincible when she fell out of the tree.
