DEFINITIONS:
apostate-person who commits to religion, etc
effusive-marked by excessive emotion
impasse- a situation with excessive emotion
euphoria: happiness and self-confidence.
lugubrious: mournful, and gloomy
bravado: a pretentious
consensus: majority of opinion
dichotomy: break up into two parts
constrict: to slow or shrink
gothic: to do with a style of architecture
punctilio: a fine point, particular, or detail, as of conduct, ceremony,
metamorphosis: transformation
raconteur: to tell
sine qua non: an indispensable condition, element
quixotic: visionary, impractical, or impracticable
vendetta: bitter feud, Troy
quagmire: anything soft/flabby
parlous: dangerous
SENTENCES:
* The girl became an apostate to her church after singing her sick mother.
* The men from the association offered effusive thanks for those who went to the meeting.
*Joan faced an impasse in her life after her husband died.
* The medicine the doctor prescribed gave her feelings of euphoria.
* The man got the acting job because of his lugubrious way.
* She would always speak about her life with bravado.
*They based the answer on the consensus.
* The story talks about the dichotomy between traditional and modern.
*Snakes constrict their prey before they eat it.
*The college student decided gothic architecture.
*Roberto was very punctilious to spread the word of new ideas.
*You can see the little boy metamorphosis from a boy to a man.
* The raconteur entertained people with his interesting stories.
*Patience is a sine qua non for a teaching job.
* Brittany had quixotic thoughts on how her life would in the future.
* The vendetta between California and Nevada are ridiculous.
*Charles was taking abiut his classes when he threw in some non sequitur about his likings of birds.
*The mystique of rock climbing.
*The outcast of the neighborhood was by himself in a quagmire position not know what to do.
* The factor is in a parlous production situation.
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