Action Adventure / hw

Julian Alvarez
Period 4
9/28/08
Vocabulary Sentences: Units 1-3

Unit 1
The free toy was an adjunct of the cereal box.
This quiz was a bellwether of the test to come.
I heard the caterwauling of the car's brakes.
The candidate's promises were impossible and chimerical.
The effete floppy disk was made obsolete by USBs.
The murder of JFK was a fait accompli.
The candidate's hidebound opinions were not open to persuasion.
The high school hierarchy categorizes nerds as low on the food chain.
The funeral liturgy was very sad.
While in the desert, I saw a mirage of an RC cola machine.
The Everglades is one giant morass.
The noisome sewer was teeming with rats.
The prey was oblivious to the stalking predator.
The poltroon made the whole class write instead of coming clean to the professor.
Chesterton was a proselyte to Catholicism.
That movie was quasi-pornographic.
Sibling raillery is to be taken lightly.
The drunkard told ribald stories of encounters with prostitutes.
The sleepy student slumped supine in his desk.
The rapper is famous for lyrical vignettes about life in the hood.
Unit 2
I went fundraising under the aegis of UNICEF.
The teacher apprised us of our required class materials.
The rich debutante was thrown out of the club for bibulous behavior.
The comedian hired a claque to assure a good response from his audience.
Slaves were deracinated from Africa.
I donated money to the eleemosynary telethon.
Coquis are indigenous to Puerto Rico.
The funeral guests were lachrymose in general.
The lexicon of hip hop culture is vast and constantly growing.
There was a drunken melee outside the tavern.
High school is an inaccurate microcosm of the real world.
P.A. says atoms are miniscule in size.
The food coloring obfuscated the clear water.
The women were attracted to his sense of paternalism.
Van Halen's singer change polarized their fans.
The detective was investigating outside of his purview.
Her sanguine advice always cheers me up.
A common solecism is "fustrated."
The vassal was loyal to his king.
The mask's verisimilitude was very convincing
Unit 3
She has a second pair of ancillary glasses.
TBS is famous for dissecting funny movies in the bowdlerization process.
The cheerleader would never condescend to talk to the nerd.
She cozened me into buying the more expensive model.
There is an enclave of aborigines that live in the Andes.
Public speaking is a forte of mine.
The waitress brought a refill gratis.
Michael Jackson is a pop icon.
The remote was stuck in the interstice between the couch cushions.
The vastness of the internet macrocosm is overwhelming.
The mountebank posing as the president was arrested.
The troops sang glorious paeans after their victory.
Salinger's persiflage is so realistic.
There was a plethora of left over food after Thanksgiving.
His pragmatic nature left no room for a "play play" attitude.
His sloppy pronunciation left his audience quizzical.
His rapacity left him with a vast wealth and no one to share it with.
For a long time, our family was divided by the schism.
Creative writing is therapeutic for a lot of people.
Pavarotti was an opera virtuoso.