the pigman vocabulary -chapters 1 & 2-
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The Pigman Vocabulary -Chapters 1 & 2-. Directions. For each vocab word, look at the picture and example sentences. Make a guess with your partner about the definition. When shown the correct definition, put it in your vocabulary notes. Avocation. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The PigmanVocabulary
-Chapters 1 & 2-
Directions• For each vocab word, look at the
picture and example sentences.• Make a guess with your partner
about the definition.• When shown the correct
definition, put it in your vocabulary notes.
Avocation• Playing soccer
is my favorite avocation, but I also like to cook.
Avocation• Noun• A hobby
Excruciating• My broken arm
was excruciating until they gave me pain medicine.
Excruciating• Adjective• Intensely painful
Raunchy• The joke he
told me was too raunchy to tell my mom.
CENSORED
Rauncy• Adjective• Dirty or obscene; rude
Subliminal• Because of her subliminal desire to own a dog, she began walking by the pet store on the way home.
Subliminal• Adjective• Existing in
the unconscious or subconscious
Repress• The memory
was too painful, so she had to repress it.
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Repress• Verb• To purposefully forget
Assert• He continues to assert that his girlfriend goes to another school even though we know he doesn’t have one.
Assert• Verb• To state positively, claim
Infantile• He was
embarrassed by his friend’s infantile behavior at the school dance.
Infantile• Adjective• Childish, immature
Compulsive• I had the compulsive urge to pick the lint off her shirt.
Compulsive• Adjective• Not able to be stopped;
irresistible
Impressionable• Her mom told
her not to cuss in front of her impressionable younger brother.
Impressionable• Adjective• Easily influenced
Mortified• I was mortified
when my brother read my diary out loud to his friends.
Mortified• Adject• Extremely embarrassed