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      <title>Vocabulary and Literary Terms by Caylee Gonzalezvasquez</title>
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      <pubDate>2025-04-30 18:30:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Domination (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>The exercise of control or influence over someone or something, or the state of being so controlled.</strong></p><p>Synonym:<strong> rule, command, control</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>submission, subordination</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>My mother would ground me each time I did something wrong in order to establish her dominance. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-30 18:55:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Lagoon (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>bay, pond, estuary, cove</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>Ever since I saw social media posts, I have been wanting to go visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland and experience the warmth and the rich minerals the lagoon water has. </strong></p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 00:18:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Conch (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition:  <strong>A tropical marine mollusk with a spiral shell that may bear long projections and have a flared lip.</strong></p><p>Synonym:<strong> shell, seashell </strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>The coach protects itself by using their hard, spiral shell whenever it feels threatened or in danger.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 01:00:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Terrace (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A level paved area or platform next to a building; a patio or veranda.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>balcony,  deck, porch</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>Interior</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>My grandparents' house has a terrace where I would always go and lie down to watch the stars at night</strong>.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 13:01:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Specious (adjective)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Superficially plausible, but actually wrong.</strong></p><p>Synonym<strong>: misleading, false, deceitful</strong></p><p>Antonym:<strong> valid, honest, true, genuine</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>When I missed school for something that was an unlawful absence, my parents would always provide a specious reason of why I missed school on those days.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 13:10:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Enmity (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.</strong></p><p>Synonym:<strong> conflict, opposition, spite, malice, hatred</strong></p><p>Antonym:<strong> friendship, goodwill, sympathy, understanding</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: As<strong> a kid, my cousin told on me for breaking a flower pot and causing me to get in trouble, so after that situation, I would feel enmity towards him when I saw him.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 14:28:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Fulcrum (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>The point on which a lever rests or is supported and on which it pivots.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>pivot, hinge, core</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>stationary, dead point, instability</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>The rollercoaster at the state fair had to be shut down due to the fulcrum being damaged.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 18:31:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Matins (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A service of morning prayer in various churches, especially the Anglican Church.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>morning</strong> <strong>prayer, prime, lauds</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>evening prayer,  vespers</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>Every Sunday morning, my mother wakes up early to attend matins at the local church near us.</strong></p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 18:39:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chorister (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A member of a choir, especially a child or young person singing the treble part in a church choir.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>singer, vocalist, songster</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>Stone is a chorister at Eleanor Roosevelt.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 18:59:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Dispersal (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>separation, dispersion, scattering</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>concentration, assembly, gathering</strong></p><p>Original Sentence. <strong>My brother got lost one time in the store due to the disperal of people there was.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 19:02:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Defiles (verb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Sully, mar, or spoil.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>degrade, destroy, dirty</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>purify, clean, cleanse</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>The environment will soon be defiled by pollution if we don't take action to become a more sustainable community.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 21:22:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Lodgments (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A place in which a person or thing is located, deposited, or lodged.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>gathering, pile, accumulation</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>dislodge</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>The scientist's research data work files were secured in their lodgment.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 21:38:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Motif (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A decorative design or pattern.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>design, pattern, logo, decoration</strong></p><p>Original Sentence:  <strong>The coffee shop downtown has a flower motif wallpaper.</strong></p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 22:03:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Lolled (verb)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>sit, lie, or stand in a lazy, relaxed way.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>lounge, sit, slouch, rest</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>stiffened, straightened</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>Last year, I always lolled on my bed every time I got home from school. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 22:26:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Decorous (adjective)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>In keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>well-mannered, proper, modest, dignified </strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>indecorous, unseemly, immodest</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>My father has always taught me since little how to be a decorous person just like he is.</strong></p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-01 22:29:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Swathes (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A piece or strip of material in which something is wrapped.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>wrap, cover, enfold, bandage</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>exposed, bare, uncovered</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>In the wintertime, there are large swathes of my backyard covered in snow.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-13 23:12:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Tumult (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>commotion, uproar, frenzy, yelling</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>silence, calm, tranquility </strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>During our school pep rally, the juniors were filled with tumult over their loss in a game.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-13 23:25:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Gesticulated (verb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Use gestures, especially dramatic ones, instead of speaking, or to emphasize one's words.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>expressive, signal, motion</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>still, frozen, motionless</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>Each time I talk to my friend, she is very gesticulating when having conversations with me.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-13 23:34:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Errant (adjective)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Erring or straying from the proper course or standards.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>guilty, disobedient, troublesome, out of control</strong></p><p>Antonym:<strong> innocent, well-behaved, proper, complying</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>My brother acts like an errant child to my mom, especially when she asks him to do something.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-13 23:50:18 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Grotesque (adjective)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>hideous, ugly, malformed, abnormal, weird</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>ordinary, normal, pleasing, appealing, </strong></p><p>Original Sentence:<strong> As a kid, I would wear interesting outfits, which I now think of as grotesque outfits. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-13 23:59:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Festooned (verb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Adorn (a place) with ribbons, garlands, or other decorations.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>decorate, array, embellish, doll up, adorn</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>blemished, scarred, spoiled</strong></p><p>Original Sentence:<strong> For my Mother's Day gift, I festooned the entrance of the house and the staircase railings with flowers as a surprise for her.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-14 00:21:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Martyred (adjective)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition:<strong> (of an attitude or manner) Showing feigned or exaggerated suffering to obtain sympathy or admiration.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>victimized, self-pitying, overdramatic</strong></p><p>Atonym: <strong>content, uncomplaining, tough-minded</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>When I need help with something, I give people a martyred look, so that they can feel sorry for me and help me.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-14 00:43:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Tirade (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A long, angry speech of criticism or accusation.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>rant, attack, diatribe, dissing</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>tribute, praise, sanction</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>When I failed a math test as a kid, my dad was provoked into a tirade, talking about me needing to focus more on my studies and pay attention in class during the lessons. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-14 00:50:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Recrimination (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>An accusation in response to one from someone else.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>countercharge, accusation, implication, squabbling, quarreling, retaliation,</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>reconciliation, resolution  </strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>After my group's engineering project failed, the group leader blamed me for the failure, but I recriminated, saying that they didn’t do anything to help and never took on the role of a real leader.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-14 01:01:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Conspiratorial (adjective)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Relating to or suggestive of a secret plan made by a group of people to do something unlawful or harmful.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>sneaky, collusive, undisclosed, confidential</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>open, general, well-known, shared, widespread</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>When my friends and I want to hang out, we always get conspiratorial about planning where to go, like we're plotting a top-secret mission.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-14 21:12:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Ebullience (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>The quality of being cheerful and full of energy; exuberance.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>joy, buoyancy, enthusiasm, high spirits </strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>depression, dullness, sluggishness, indolence, lifelessness</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>When I was in elementary school, I was known as the kid whose best personality trait was my ebullience.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-14 21:20:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Opalescence (adjective)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Showing varying colors as an opal does.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>iridescent, colorful, pearlescent, bright, luminescence, radiance</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>dullness, opaqueness, darkness, dimness</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>My mom gifted me a necklace from my great-grandmother, where the opalescence shimmered beautifully in the light, and the pink and gold butterfly charm flashed like a ray of sunshine.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-22 23:40:59 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Corporate (adjective)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Relating to a corporation, especially a large company or group.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>merged, joint, combined, united, collaborative, allied</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>individual, divided, isolated, fragmented, separate</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>At school, we all have many friend groups, and sometimes they act like a corporate body at Pep Rallies.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-22 23:55:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Impalpable (adjective)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Unable to be felt by touch.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>intangible, elusive, incorporeal, unreal</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>palpable, real, touched, embodied, tangible</strong></p><p>Original Sentence:<strong> As a kid, I used to think I was a ghost, acting as if I were impalpable to others.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-23 00:03:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Incursion (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>An invasion or attack, especially a sudden or brief one.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>invasion, attack on, raid, storm, ambush</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>retreat</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>During war, many armies make sudden incursions into enemy territory.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-23 00:19:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Blatant (adjective)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>(of bad behavior) Done openly and unashamedly.  </strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>open, transparent, shameless, bold, flagrant, overt, brazen.</strong></p><p>Antonym:<strong> inconspicuous, subtle, calm, silent.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>Younger kids always act blatant around others.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-23 00:30:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Belligerence (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Aggressive or warlike behavior.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>aggression, hostility, unfriendliness, rudeness, defiance</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>cordiality, amiability, friendliness, sociability.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>In middle school, there was one person I wanted to become friends with, but their belligerence made it hard for me to talk to them calmly. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-23 00:38:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Malevolently (adverb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Having or showing a wish to do evil to others.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>malicious, hostile, evil, vicious, cruel, vengeful, vindictive.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>benevolent, loving, sympathetic, good, compassionate, kind.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>In many children's stories, the villains act malevolently toward others.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-23 00:46:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Detritus (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Waste or debris of any kind.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>waste, litter, scrap, scraps, spoilage, junk, fragments, wreckage.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>After the storm, the beach was covered in detritus from the trees.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-23 01:00:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Incredulously (adverb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>In a manner indicating disbelief.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>skeptical, suspicious, unsure, cynical.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>trusting, naive, sure.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>One time during recess in elementary school, I looked at some kids incredulously when they said they saw a snake in the field.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-05-23 01:10:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Leviathan (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>(in biblical use) A sea monster, identified in different passages with the whale and the crocodile. </strong></p><p>Synonym:<strong> colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, immense.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>common, dwarfed, little, ordinary, miniature, tiny.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>As a little girl, I was always scared of the sea because my older cousins would say there was a leviathan living in it.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 21:36:27 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Interminable (adjective)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Endless (often used hyperbolically).</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>never-ending, nonstop, everlasting, constant, continual.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>recurrent, seasonal, periodic, occasional.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>Many students describe their school day as interminable.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 21:41:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Diffidently (adverb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>In a way that shows lack of confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timidly or shyly.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>shyly, timidly, meekly, bashfully, fearfully.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>boldly, proudly, scornfully, fearlessly, pridefully, brazenly.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>I would always stand up for kids in my elementary school who acted diffidently around bullies.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 22:08:56 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chasms (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A deep fissure in the earth, rock, or another surface.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>gorge, abyss, canyons, voids, crater.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>There are many chasms on Earth.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 22:26:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Guano (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>The excrement of seabirds and bats, used as fertilizer.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>manure, feces, poop, excreta.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>When I was on a trail, I slipped on a rock that was covered with guano.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 22:32:59 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Plinth (noun)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>A heavy base supporting a statue or vase. </strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>podium, base, slab, foundation.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence:  <strong>The statue tumbled from the plinth and smashed to the ground.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 22:37:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Tremulously (adverb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/caylgonzalezvasquez/zke6tmpt9czkslls/wish/3479352740</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>In a nervous way that causes you or your voice to shake slightly.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>timidly, nervously, shakily, trembling.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>daringly, boldly, bravely, fearlessly, confidently.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence:<strong> I would respond tremulously whenever my mom would yell at me. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 22:46:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Mutinously (adverb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>In a way that shows you refuse or are not willing to do what you are told to do.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>rebelliously, disobediently, insubordinately, turbulently. </strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>loyally, obediently, compliantly, insubmissively.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>I have always acted mutinously towards my mom.</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 22:52:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Lamentations (noun)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>The passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.</strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>weeping, wailing, crying, sobbing, moaning, mourning.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>rejoicing, happiness, celebration.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>On New Year's, you don't only think about your blessings, but also your lamentations. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 23:00:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Tempestuously (adverb)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>In a way that is full of strong emotions. </strong></p><p>Synonym: <strong>stormily, turbulently, violently, furiously.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>calmly, serenely, peacefully, tranquily.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>I completed this assignment tempestuously. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 23:05:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title> Discursive (adjective)</title>
         <author>caylgonzalezvasquez</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Definition: <strong>Digressing from subject to subject.</strong></p><p>Synonym:<strong> rambling, lengthy, verbose, digressive.</strong></p><p>Antonym: <strong>concise.</strong></p><p>Original Sentence: <strong>The professor was discursive as he gave his lecture. </strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-06-04 23:10:16 UTC</pubDate>
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