1.abstract:existing only in the mind; separated from embodime
Novel Sentence:“Aristotle was an astute observer of nature, and he dealt with problems around him rather than with abstract cases that did not occur in his environment” (Hewitt 25).
Stand-alone:This poem was abstract and difficult to understand for me.
2.scheme:an elaborate and systematic plan of action
Novel Sentence:“No total vision, total system, merely schemes with a vague family resemblance, no more identity than briges and, say, spiderwebs” (Gardner 64).
Stand-alone:I have come up with several schemes for get the class monies.
3.extrapolate:draw from specific cases for more general cases
Novel Sentence:“...merely rational thoughts leaves the mind incurable crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past” (Gardner 135).
Stand-alone:You can't extrapolate a generalization base upon a handful of data.
In-text: The dragon explains that humans have a tendency to extrapolate theories and grossly generalize from the limited evidence they have, hampered as they are by their restricted vision of the world.
4.epitomize:embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of
Novel Sentence:“The nature of evil may be epitomized, therefore, in two simple but horrible and holy propositions: ‘Things fade’ and ‘Alternatives exclude’“ (Gardner 133).
Stand-alone: World HIsotory textbook epitomize the history of the human history.
In-text: This quote epitomize Hrothgar's personality.
5.putrefaction:(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
Novel Sentence:“I seemed to see the whole universe, even the sun and sky, leaping forward, then sinking away again, decomposing. Everything was wreckage, putrefaction" (Grandner 19).
Stand-alone: When police go to that house, the air was stuffy and there was an unbearable stench of blood and putrefaction.
In-text: But, the place was just a pool of blood now, the putrefactive odor blood of dead.
6.encumbrance:an onerous or difficult concern
Novel Sentence:“A timid encumbrance lacking steel in his backbone who would most likely have remained in paralysis, incapable of action, and let the Section go under” (Stieg Larsson 564).
Stand-alonel:It's will be encumbrance to my success.
In-text: Hrothgar thought Beowulf was going to be an encumbrance to him.
7.lugubrious:excessively mournful
Novel Sentence:"There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drolley in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board’’ (Conrad 31).
Stand-alone:I don't wanna see lugubrious look on someone's face.
In-text: He said in a sorrowful lugubrious voice.
8.mayhem:violent and needless disturbance
Novel Sentence:"Murder and mayhem are the life and soull of revolution"(Gardner 118)
Stand-alone:We see enough murder and mayhem on news.
In-text: And he can only do that by being evil causing mayhem, killing people, threatening man.
9.coercive:serving or intended to coerce
Novel Sentence:“Public force is the life and soul of every state: not merely army and police but prisons, judges, tax collectors, every conceivable trick of coercive repression” (Gardner 119).
Stand-alone:When I met to him, he had coercive impression.
In-text: Twisted coercively , it made a nasty sound of bones cracking into each other.
10.mutter:talk Indistinctly; usually in a low voice
Novel Sentence:“I shake my head, muttering darkly on shaded paths, holding conversation with the only friend and comfort this world affords, my shadow" (Gardner ??).
Stand-alone:I mutter to myself while i'm working or riding the train.
In-test: “Too windy...," she muttered.
11.fidelity:the quality of being falthful
Novel Sentence:"...oul of fidelity, decorum" (Grendel 144)
Stand alone:The breathtaking realism of the landscape owned its fidelity to photography.
In-text: As a result, he can literally buy fidelity, even when he can’t force it in battle.
12.vaguely:In a vague way
Novel Sentence:“He panted for a long time, then rolled his eyes up, vaguely in my direction” (Grander 87).
Stand-alone:I'm vaguely aware of that.
In-text: He feels vaguely like he is kind of out of the world.
13.surmount:get on top of; deal with successfully
Novel Sentence:“The dogs fall silent at the edge of my spell, and where the king’s hall surmounts the town, the blind old Shaper, harp clutched tight to his fragile chest, stares futilely down, straight at me” (Gardner 13).
Stand-alone: He had surmount many difficulties.
In-text: He surmounted a lot of obstacles.
14.perplexity:trouble or confusion resulting from complexity
Novel Sentece:“Explored our far-flung underground world in an endless wargame of leaps onto nothing, ingenious twists into freedom or new perplexity, quick whispered plottings with invisible friends, wild cackles when vengeance was mine” (Gardner 15).
Stand-alone:My grades were terrible, so I was in perplexity.
In-text: A look of perplexity appeared on Yuri's face.
15.inviolable:incapable of being transgressed or dishonored
Novel Sentence:“(Were they my brothers, my uncles, those creatures shuffling brimstone-eyed from room to room, or sitting separate, isolated, muttering forever like under ground rivers, each in its private, inviolable gloom?)” (Gardener 21).
Stand-alone:My dad's room is an inviolable place.
