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Monday, February 1, 2010

Honors Vocab #1

Flourish: to grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, esp. as the result of a particularly favorable environment

• I flourished at the ice cream store.









Guerilla: a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces

• The guerrillas attacked the Marines but were unsuccessful.








Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

• Colt was a stereotypical cowboy.










Tempo: he speed at which a passage of music is or should be played, the rate or speed of motion or activity

• Swing has a fast tempo.














Tundra: a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.

• There are a lot of polar bears and wolves on the tundra.

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