| Word * | Part of Speech | Definition | Audio Available? |
|---|---|---|---|
| unite | Verb | To come or bring together as one | Yes |
| entwine | Verb | To twist or twine around something | Yes |
| acute | Adjective | Urgent | Yes |
| acute | Adjective | Sensitive | Yes |
| acute | Adjective | Short, quick | Yes |
| acute | Adjective | Of an angle, less than 90 degrees | Yes |
| acute | Adjective | Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset | Yes |
| abuse | Noun | Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse | Yes |
| abuse | Noun | Physical maltreatment; injury | Yes |
| abuse | Noun | An unjust, corrupt, or wrongful practice or custom; offense; crime; fault | Yes |
| abuse | Noun | Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language | Yes |
| abuse | Verb | To put to a wrong use; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end | Yes |
| abuse | Verb | To injure; to hurt; to treat with cruelty | Yes |
| abuse | Verb | To assault; to violate | Yes |
| abuse | Verb | To attack with coarse language; to insult | Yes |
| confuse | Verb | To confound; to disorder | Yes |
| confuse | Verb | To puzzle; to bewilder | Yes |
| confuse | Verb | To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass | Yes |
| confuse | Verb | To mistake one thing for another | Yes |
| deduce | Verb | To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given conditions | Yes |
| delude | Verb | To deceive someone into believing something which is false | Yes |
| mature | Adjective | Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behavior, or thinking; ripe, as in vegetables or fruits | Yes |
| mature | Adjective | Profound; careful | Yes |
| mature | Adjective | The growth of behavior and thinking | Yes |
| mature | Verb | To become mature; to ripen; to gain experience or wisdom with age | Yes |
| pollute | Verb | To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product | Yes |
| pollute | Verb | To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor | Yes |
| pollute | Adjective | Polluted | Yes |
| procure | Verb | To acquire or obtain an item, sometimes rare, usually by extra effort | Yes |
| rebuke | Noun | A harsh criticism | Yes |
| rebuke | Verb | To criticize harshly | Yes |
| reduce | Verb | To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade | Yes |
| reduce | Verb | To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to capture | Yes |
| reduce | Verb | To heat on a stove, to partly solidify or decrease the liquid content by boiling much of it off | Yes |
| seclude | Verb | To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into solitude, as to seclude oneself from the world | Yes |
| seclude | Verb | To shut or keep out; exclude | Yes |
| secure | Adjective | Free from attack or danger; protected | Yes |
| secure | Adjective | Free from the danger of theft; safe | Yes |
| secure | Adjective | Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception, or discovery; secret | Yes |
| secure | Adjective | Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid | Yes |
| secure | Adjective | Firm and not likely to fail; stable | Yes |
| secure | Adjective | Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable | Yes |
| secure | Verb | To protect | Yes |
Vocabulary Word Activities
- Use the word in an original sentence.
- Find and learn the definition of the word.
- Know how to pronounce the word.
- Which parts of speech is the word used as (e.g. noun, verb)?
- What are other forms of the word such as plurals or tenses.
- What are synonyms of the word?
- What are antonyms of the word?
- What is the origin or etymology of the word?
- What words rhyme with this word?
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