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Cards (8)

  • Boisterous(adj) | BOY-stuh-rus

    • Loud; rough; rowdy
    • Boisterously (adv): In a loud, rough, or rowdy manner
  • Congenital
    • Pronunciation: kahn-GEHN-iht-uhl
    • Part of Speech: Adjective
    • Definition: Related to a condition that began at birth
    • Adverb: Congenitally
    • Example Sentence: He was born with a congenital heart defect.
  • Consecrate
    • Pronunciation: KAHN-seh-krayt
    • Part of Speech: Verb
    • Definition: Make honored or sacred
    • Adjective: Consecrated
    • Example Sentence: The priest consecrated the ground where the church was to be built.
  • Contemporaneous
    • Pronunciation: kahn-tehmp-or-AY-nee-uhs
    • Part of Speech: Adjective
    • Definition: Existing or happening at the same time; contemporary
    • Adverb: Contemporaneously
    • Example Sentence: The two artists were contemporaneous, although they never met.
  • Imperatively
    • Pronunciation: ihm-PAYR-uh-tihv-lee
    • Part of Speech: Adverb
    • Definition: With necessity or requirement; commandingly
    • Adjective: Imperative
    • Noun: Imperative
    • Example Sentence: The teacher spoke imperatively, ensuring the students understood the urgency.
  • Languidly
    • Pronunciation: LAYN-gwihd-lee
    • Part of Speech: Adverb
    • Definition: Listlessly fatigued
    • Adjective: Languid
    • Example Sentence: She moved languidly after the long, exhausting day.
  • Tacit
    • Pronunciation: TA-sit
    • Part of Speech: Adjective
    • Definition: Understood without being stated; implied
    • Adverb: Tacitly
    • Example Sentence: There was a tacit agreement between them that they would not discuss it further.
  • Wanton
    • Pronunciation: WAN-tuhn
    • Part of Speech: Adjective
    • Definition: Unprovoked; unjustified; malicious
    • Adverb: Wantonly
    • Example Sentence: The wanton destruction of the property was deeply troubling.