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The PigmanVocabulary
-Chapters 1 & 2-
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Directions• For each vocab word, look at the
picture and example sentences.• Make a guess with your partner
about the definition.• When shown the correct
definition, put it in your vocabulary notes.
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Avocation• Playing soccer
is my favorite avocation, but I also like to cook.
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Avocation• Noun• A hobby
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Excruciating• My broken arm
was excruciating until they gave me pain medicine.
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Excruciating• Adjective• Intensely painful
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Raunchy• The joke he
told me was too raunchy to tell my mom.
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Rauncy• Adjective• Dirty or obscene; rude
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Subliminal• Because of her subliminal desire to own a dog, she began walking by the pet store on the way home.
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Subliminal• Adjective• Existing in
the unconscious or subconscious
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Repress• The memory
was too painful, so she had to repress it.
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Repress• Verb• To purposefully forget
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Assert• He continues to assert that his girlfriend goes to another school even though we know he doesn’t have one.
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Assert• Verb• To state positively, claim
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Infantile• He was
embarrassed by his friend’s infantile behavior at the school dance.
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Infantile• Adjective• Childish, immature
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Compulsive• I had the compulsive urge to pick the lint off her shirt.
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Compulsive• Adjective• Not able to be stopped;
irresistible
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Impressionable• Her mom told
her not to cuss in front of her impressionable younger brother.
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Impressionable• Adjective• Easily influenced
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Mortified• I was mortified when my brother read my diary out loud to his friends.
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Mortified• Adject• Extremely embarrassed