Vocabulary - Claire Zerna's Teaching Portfolio

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Vocabulary
Dispensation: _______________________________________
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Repudiation: _______________________________________
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Acrimony: __________________________________________
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Excommunication: ____________________________________
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Varlet: _____________________________________________
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Pious: ______________________________________________
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Dissolution: _________________________________________
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Septicemia: _________________________________________
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Impetuous: __________________________________________
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Intercession: _________________________________________
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Heretic: ____________________________________________
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Dispensation: a release from an obligation (noun)
Sentence: The marriage dispensation allowed me to become engaged to my true love.
Repudiate: to discard, disown, denounce (verb)
Sentence: My father repudiated me when I turned 18; he kicked me out of the house.
Acrimony: harsh language (noun)
Sentence: She raised her voice and spoke to me with acrimony.
Excommunicate: to be censured whereby one is cast out of the church.
Sentence: The nun broke religious law and was excommunicated.
Varlet: servant, attendant (noun)
Sentence: The varlet helped to bathe the girl.
Pious: manifesting devotion to God (adjective)
Sentence: The nun was extremely pious.
Dissolution: the act of dissolving or breaking up. (noun)
Sentence: The dissolution of our gang was a sad thing.
Septicaemia: blood poisoning (noun)
Sentence: She died of septicaemia during child-birth, a common cause of death in women in the 15th
century.
Impetuous: impulsive (adjective)
Sentence: His impetuous nature got him into trouble.
Intercession: act of mediation; intervening on behalf of others (noun)
Sentence: The intercession by my lawyer saved me a lot of money.
Heretic: a person who purposefully upholds beliefs different from the Christian Church. (noun)
Sentence: Heretics have been punished severely in history.
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