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martial   virtuoso    copious   patent   conspicuous   amenable   ambulatory   forsake
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ramification, rapacious, recalcitrant, recant, recrimination, redolent, redundant, refutable, relegate, relinquish, remonstrate, reparation, replenish, reprehensible, requisite, resolute, rigorous, rudimentary

acumen, chicanery, deleterious, epiphany, facetious, homogeneous, incognito, kinetic, loquacious, lugubrious, nihilism, obsequious, paradigm, precipitous, sanguine, unctuous, vacuous, xenophile

Exercise 4

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Exercise 3

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Verb Tense Exercise 26	Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
	Verb Tense Exercise 25
	Prepositions of Direction
Verb Tense Exercise 24	Simple Present, Simple Future, Present Continuous, and Future Continuous
affinity, clairvoyant, emulate, expedite, impetuous, innocuous, mundane, penitent, propensity, regressive, resilient, sedentary, succinct, terse, ubiquitous, vindictive, wanton, zenith
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Verb Tense Exercise 23	Simple Future and Future Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 22	Simple Present and Simple Future

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migrant: somebody who moves from one place to another, often in search of work
apathy, disdain, diverse, enigma, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed, incessant, insidious, integrity, jocular, kindle, ludicrous, provocative, reclusive, reverence, scrutinize, superficial

Verb Tense Exercise 21

Simple Present and Simple Future

Verb Tense Exercise 20

Will and Be Going to

Verb Tense Exercise 19

Will and Be Going to

candid, inevitable, lethargy, morose, novice, obscure, ostentatious, precocious, prevaricate, querulous, quiescent, repose,
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complacent, conciliatory, devious, diligent, discernible, dogmatic, eccentric, fallacious, indifferent, inquisitive, meticulous, pertinent, plausible
repudiate, soporific, spontaneous, squander, theoretical, virulent, reticent

Verb Tense Exercise 17

Present and Past Tense Review

Verb Tense Exercise 16

Present and Past Tenses with Non-Continuous Verbs

Verb Tense Exercise 18

Will and Be Going to

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abstract, aesthetic, benevolent, capricious, complacent, conciliatory, devious, diligent, discernible, dogmatic, eccentric, fallacious, indifferent, inquisitive, meticulous, pertinent, plausible, reticent

abject, abstract, acrimonious, acumen, aesthetic, affinity, affluence, alacrity, analogous, apathy, arbitrary, benevolent, candid, capricious

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parody   idyllic   ponderous    wanton   secular    recondite   inveterate   malleablepredilection  propensity    sloth
existential    auspicious    heterogeneous    fickle   indiscreet
diligent     constitute    anguish (adj.): a feeling of great physical or mental pain
bank (n.):                   the part of land that meets a body of water
bindle (n.):                a small bundle of items rolled up inside a blanket
brusquely (adv.):    quickly; almost rudelydespot     reverberate     rogue     pathology    frugal    autonomous    machination
contemplate (v.)     to deeply think about something
debris (n.):              the remains after something falls apartannals  bruptly (adv.): suddenly; almost rudely
apprehensive (adj.): anxious; fearful
complacently (adv.): in a pleased, satisfied manner
derogatory (adj.): belittling and insulting
dousing (n): to douse is to be drenched with liquid. A dousing refers to someone having been covered with a liquid, in this case water, during a washing.
mollified (adj.): soothed; pacified
ominously (adv.): in a threatening way 
bemused: preoccupied; deep in thought
bleated: the cry usually associated with a goat or sheep
cowering: to tremble with fear
deride: to make fun of a person
orchard: an area where many fruit or nut trees are planted
receptive: able and willing to listen to and accept information and new ideas
criticism: pointing out someone's faults
reprehensible: deserving of criticism
sarcastically: said in a mean or bitter way
ardent   vernal  jauntiness   dire    detained    impediments    hindrances   

Verb Tense Exercise 14

Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, and Past Perfect Continuous

Verb Tense Exercise 15

Present Continuous, Simple Past, Present Perfect Continuous, and Past Perfect Continuous

elaborate (adj.):      expressed in great detail

Verb Tense Exercise 11

Simple Past and Past Perfect

hindrance     farcical    elliptical    prolific    assimilate     celibacy    palpable   grandiose
 

Verb Tense Exercise 13

Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous

Verb Tense Exercise 12

Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Past Perfect   we did thru number four

juncture (n.):           where two things come together
mimicking (v.):        imitating
morosely (adv.):      in a sad, gloomy manner
mottled (adj.):          having a variety of colors mixed together
recumbent (adj.):    still; without movement
stake (n.):                  an amount of money

New Archive   noxious   chivalrous   compose   apathy   cacophony   exalt   poignant  add wordsexpropriate

reparation   parochial    monolithic   patriarch   sensory

qualitative   misanthropic   felicity   obsequious   equitable

abstruse   elusive   taciturn   ephemeral   quantitative   relegate   conciliatory

appropriate   concurrent   complicity   lampoon

Verb Tense Exercise 1

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Exercise 3

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Verb Tense Exercise 2

Verb Tense Exercise 3

Pronoun Agreement

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:malign
prosaic
* avarice
furtive august   piquant    arabesque   cessation   habiliments   disapprobation   loom   apprentice  rake  stupor
tumult

Exercise 2

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doughty
credulity
fusillade
foreboding   foreshadow
* misinformation
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Exercise 1Middle School Word List   Ninth Grade Vocabulary    Ninth Grade Summer Vocabulary List   
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Verb Tense Exercise 10

Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous

Verb Tense Exercise 7 Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous

Verb Tense Exercise 4	Simple Past and Past Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 6	Simple Past and Present Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 8	Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 9	Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous

 

Exercise 4

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Simple Present and Present Continuous

Simple Present and Present Continuous

Simple Past and Past Continuous

precipitate   equivocate   assiduous    aptitude   circumspect   metamorphosis   substantive
nepotism   solicitous   inclement   obscure   jeopardy   nebulous   diverse   stratum   anarchy   acrimonious

Verb Tense Exercise 5

Simple Past and Present Perfect

Exercise 1

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Gerunds, Prepositions, Parallel Structure....docile   impartial   precedent   figurative   reiterate   prudent   negligence   innocuous   lax

precipitate   equivocate   assiduous    aptitude   circumspect   metamorphosis   substantive

Exercise 5

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Exercise 2

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monolithic   patriarch   sensory   qualitative   misanthropic   felicity   obsequious

equitable   expropriate   noxious   chivalrous    compose   apathy   cacophony

circumspect   metamorphosis   substantive   nepotism   solicitous   inclement   obscure

jeopardy   nebulous   diverse   stratum   anarchy

acrimonious     abstruse     elusive     taciturn     ephemeral     quantitative     relegate     conciliatory

        appropriate     concurrent     complicity     lampoon     reparation     parochial

Exercise 3

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Exercise 4

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We covered parallel structure, colons, semicolons, pronouns
parallel structure, voice, gerunds, prepositions....

Also... Gerunds, easily confused words...

impartial

precedent

figurative

reiterate

prudent

negligence

innocuous

lax

precipitate

equivocate

assiduous

aptitude

to

for

into

onto
 

labyrinth

exacerbate

incense

daunt

rudimentary

credulous

lucid

sacrosanct

docile

daunt

rudimentary

credulous

lucid

sacrosanct

engender

vitiate   ameliorate

pacify

dearth

indolence

marred

indigenous

nepotism

antecedent

syntax

cumbersome

subjective

imperative

mitigate

objective

expletive

incense

anarchy

absence of any form of political authority

lawlessness

contradiction
through
by
than
as
idiom
demagogue

equivocal
lampoon	a broad satirical piece that uses ridicule to attack a person, a group or an institution	satirize

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