Vocabulary 23 Introduction
Sentence
Stick to the important, relevant facts for
your research paper and don’t waste
time on peripheral issues.
If you peruse the directions carefully,
you won’t make mistakes as you
complete the assignment.
Philistine stubbornness should not
prevent us from advancing ourselves
intellectually.
Miss Billings set an example of piety and
humility for the other members of her
church.
To pique her students curiosity, Ms.
Garson told them she had a surprise in
store for them when the day was over.
Word
Peripheral/adj.
I tried to placate my father by promising
I would never break curfew again.
Though the rebel was outwardly placid,
inside he was seething with rage over the
cruel treatment of the refugees.
The professor thought Marion may have
plagiarized her report when he say that
she had no works cited page.
Placate/v.
Avoid using platitudes in your writing so
that your compositions remain fresh and
original.
The fans hated the pompous football
player who acted like he was the greatest
living athlete even though he was having
an average season.
Peruse/v.
Definition
External; incidental;
tangential; relatively
unimportant
To study; to read; pore
over
Philistine/adj.
Narrow-minded; smugly
conventional; boorish
Piety/n.
Devotion and reverence,
especially to God and
family; devoutness
To hurt the feelings of or
make resentful; to
arouse or excite;
provoke
To soothe; to pacify; to
appease
Outwardly calm or
composed; self-satisfied;
peaceful; unruffled
To take ideas or writings
from someone else and
resent them as one’s
own; to use without
giving credit; usurp
A thought or remark
that is dull; trite, flat, or
weak; cliche
Self-important; stately;
magnificent; excessively
ornate; arrogant
Pique/v.
placid/adj.
Plagiarize/v.
Platitude/n.
Pompous/adj.