Vocabulary 16 sentances
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- Coalition (16)
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An alliance (esp. between nations):
The coalition of Germany and Spain was bad for France because now it was surrounded by allies on all sides. - Insidious (16)
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Sly, Treacherous
The cat was very insidious as it lurked in the shadows, silently waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting mouse - Repression
- Billy tried to repress the memory of the time he fell off the tire swing, but everytime he went to the playground he was haunted by the terrible ordeal.
- peripheral
- Though my cookies tase bad because they are a little burnt, that is only a peripheral problem compared to the fact that I added a cup of salt instead of sugar.
- Martyr
- Religious leaders sometimes martyrs because martyrs when they are sentanced to death after refusing to renounce their beliefs
- Bulwark
- Sally named John her official bulwark after he protected her from a basketball that was thrown at her head.
- Exodus
- The warning of sharks in the water caused a great exodus from the beach; people ran as far as they could to get away from the infested water
- Waive
- When he was forced to step down as king, his rights to eat free at McDonalds were also waived.
- Heinous
- The henious crime was so vile that it shocked all of the other crimminals in the county jail.
- Invidious
- The riches of the movie star were invidious to all of the regular people he knew that they stopped being friends with him.