vocabulary

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  • lauded: highly praised or admired
  • protocol: Set of rules of a particular activity or system. 
  • strictures: limit imposed on something
  • transfixed: Motionless with terror or amazement
  • consumed: Exhaust / waste
  • berate: scold or criticize (someone) angrily
  • edicts: Official orders or proclamations issued by a person in authority 
  • savaged: To attack something by judging or giving your opinion about something. 
  • namely: Used to introduce precise information or specify something
  • belay: To secure a rope 
  • impulsive: acting or done without thinking
  • cues:  Signals that indicate what action or response is required
  • Homonym: a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and spelling.
    1. Conceive: to form an idea or plan in the mind; to form a mental image of something but also can be to become pregnant