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Wordly Wise Chapters 1-3

Words that deal with People

Question:

President Lincoln did this with the slaves


Answer:

What is emancipate?



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Definition of vagabond


Answer:

What is someone who wanders from place to place?



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Someone who falls behind the group


Answer:

What is a laggard?



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You might see a frown or a smile on this


Answer:

What is visage?



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Someone who might coax someone to give them something would so this


Answer:

What is wheedle?



"P"retty Words

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If someone is deep in thought, they are said to be this


Answer:

What is pensive?



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You might do this to see how deep the water in a lake is


Answer:

What is plumb?



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If the wall in your house is extremely straight, you would say it was this


Answer:

What is plumb?



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A showiy or dignified display


Answer:

What is pomp?



Question:

a detective might do this with a case


Answer:

What is plumb?



Three syllable words

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If someone wears excessively showy clothes they might be called this


Answer:

What is flamboyant?



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If you are carrying a giant pack on your shoulders and it is super heavy you might call it this


Answer:

What is encumber?



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If someone makes a very bad plan and everything goes haywire, we can call it this


Answer:

What is haphazard?



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To show that someone might be invovled in something illegal


Answer:

What is implicate?



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The priest does this to the bread and wine at mass


Answer:

What is consecrate?



Four syllable words

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Of or relating to money


Answer:

What is monetary?



Question:

Someone who doesn't work consistently or who only works now and again might be called this


Answer:

What is intermittent?



Question:

Ghangis Khan had so many descendents we can say that they are this


Answer:

What is ubiquitous?



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McGyver is sometimes refered by this adjective because he is so resourceful


Answer:

What is ingenious?



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Someone who plants crop in a field may do this with the seeds


Answer:

What is disseminate?



Mix "e" d Up

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To warn or appeal


Answer:

What is exhort?



Question:

To impeded someon's actions


Answer:

What is encumber?
 



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To praise highly


Answer:

What is extol?



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To refer to in an indirect way


Answer:

What is allude?



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To feel or express grief


Answer:

What is lament?