week 2 honors 9 vocab

Intervene (verb)

Word Forms: intervention, intervening

Definition: come between to prevent or change an event.
Sentence: The teacher had to intervene when the two students started arguing.
Memory Trick: Inter means between

Intramural (adjective)

Word Forms: intramurally

Definition: happening within the walls of a building, usually a school.
Sentence: Our school has intramural sports teams that compete only with each other.
Memory Trick: Mural = wall so like inside a wall

Intravenous (adjective)

Word Forms: intravenously

Definition: happening inside the veins.
Sentence: The patient received intravenous fluids at the hospital.
Memory Trick: Vena = vein

interlude (noun)

Word Forms: interludes

Definition: a short break or pause between parts of a performance, event, or activity.
Sentence: During the play, there was a musical interlude while the stage was reset.
Trick: inter = between

Extraneous (adjective)

Word Forms: extraneously

Definition: not related to what is being talked about.
Sentence: Please remove any extraneous information from your essay.
Memory Trick: Extra = extra stuff you do not need

Extrapolate (verb)

Word Forms: extrapolation

Definition: guess based on existing facts or trends.
Sentence: Scientists can extrapolate future climate changes by looking at today's data.
Memory Trick: Extra and relate = relate to the future

Gratuitous (adjective)

Word Forms: gratuitously, gratuitousness

Definition: unnecessary or without good reason.
Sentence: The movie had gratuitous violence that added nothing to the story.
Memory Trick: Gratuitous = Greatly useless

Audacity (noun)

Word Forms: audacious, audaciously

Definition: boldness or rude behavior.
Sentence: She had the audacity to lie to the principal's face.

Memory Trick: Audi = hear like loud actions

Emulate (verb)
Word Forms: emulation, emulator

Definition: try to match or do better, often by copying.
Sentence: He tried to emulate his brother’s success in business.
Memory Trick: Emulate = Imitate

Nepotism (noun)

Word Forms: nepotistic

Definition: favoring family or friends for jobs or benefits.
Sentence: The company was accused of nepotism after the CEO hired her cousins.
Memory Trick: nepo baby = kardashians

Conundrum (noun)

Word Forms: conundrums

Definition: a confusing or difficult problem.

Sentence: Deciding where to go to college was a real conundrum for her.
Memory Trick: drums play when people are confused in movies

Disingenuous (adjective)

Word Forms: disingenuously, disingenuousness

Definition: not honest or sincere.
Sentence: His apology felt disingenuous because he was smiling.
Memory Trick: Genuine = real, and dis = not

Dubious (adjective)

Word Forms: dubiously , dubiousness

Definition: hesitating or doubting.
Sentence: I was dubious about buying a used car from that dealer.
Memory Trick: kinda sounds like do you belive this

Morose (adjective)

Word Forms: morosely, moroseness

Definition: very gloomy or bad-tempered.
Sentence: After losing the game, the whole team looked morose.
Memory Trick: mor = more like more sadness

Fortuitous (adjective)

Word Forms: fortuitously, fortuitousness

Definition: happening by chance, lucky.
Sentence: It was fortuitous that we found a taxi right away in the rain.
Memory Trick: Fortune = lucky