The man went to the oracle, and received an enigma saying, “ going west, is going east. And

going east is going west.” The man was very puzzled by this.

Enigma

The girl augmented the balloon to increase its size.

Augment

The poison was pernicious. The girl was told not to drink it.

Pernicious

In Academic Decathlon, we are learning how to do an impromptu. So we can do it at the competition off-

hand.

IMPROMPTU

Bart Simpson got in trouble for plagiarizing Iraq reports.

Plagiarism

20 Vocabulary Sentences

BY MADISON BRICE

The sick girl became emaciate when she got sick.

Emaciate

The mother lived vicariously through her daughter

because there was a lot of things she wished she could

do as a teen.

Vicarious

The officious secretary gave everyone that came into the office advice, even if they did not want it.

Officious

The ambiguity of the teacher’s instructions made it very difficult to understand exactly what she wanted.

AMBIGUITY

The egregious remarks from the politician caused him to be removed from the elections

because his beliefs were outrageous.Egregious

The ersatz sugar was bad imitation of the real thing because it was artificial.

ERSATZ

The googol is an insane number because it is such a large number.

Googol

The woman had serendipity when it came to knowing how to make lots of money.

Serendipity

To answer that the sky is blue is a non-sequitur response to the question,

“What’s up?”.

Non-Sequitur

San Francisco is considered a microcosm.

microcosm

The redundancy in the story made it

boring to read because it

repeated itself.

redundancy

Jack Sparrow was disparaged from his position for refusing to follow orders from

a ranking officer.

disparage

The dearth during the depression as the worst the United States had ever seen.

dearth

The tentative schedule for the rock

tour will be posted online until

everything gets confirmed.

Tentative

Harry and Hermonine made a furtive plan to save Serious from certain death.

furtive