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50 Unfamiliar Words With

Meaning And An Example

SUBMITTED BY: SUBMITTED TO:

Elmar B. Espocia Mrs. Queenie Gazer Galvan


Grade 7 Ezra Teacher

1. WORD: Tidy

MEANING: Clean

SAMPLE SENTENCE: My brother’s room is tidy.

2. WORD: Incubator

MEANING: Machine used to hatch egg

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The egg from the chicken put in the incubator.

3. WORD: Elegant

MEANING: Glamorous

SAMPLE SENTENCE: My sister looks elegant in her dress.

4. WORD: Location

MEANING: Place
SAMPLE SENTENCE: The restaurant is located in Cubao.

5. WORD: Adverse

MEANING: In an opposing direction

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The library is adverse to the canteen.

6. WORD: Ambivalent

MEANING: Uncertain

SAMPLE SENTENCE: My freind is ambivalent to which direction he will go.

7. WORD: Annex

MEANING: Attach to

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The Block is Trinoma’s annex.

8. WORD: Antithesis
MEANING: Exact opposite

SAMPLE SENTENCE: My dogs character is antithesis to Angel’s cat.

9. WORD: Gregarious

MEANING: Friendly

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Cardo have many friends because he is gregarious.

10. WORD: Candor

MEANING : The quality of being honest.

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Axl is a candor person because he tells the truth.

11. WORD: Kinetic

MEANING: Active,lively

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Johnson got many awards for being kinetic in class.
12. WORD: Scavenger

MEANING: Junk collector

SAMPLE SENTENCE: A scavenger collects used water bottle to sell in

junk shop.

13. WORD: Glitch

MEANING: A false or electronic signal

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Manny can’t play the game because of the glitch.

14. WORD :Camaraderie

MEANING: A spirit of friendly good-fellowship.

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Because of their great camaraderie, they won the game.

15. WORD: Synopsis

MEANING: A condensed statement or outline

SAMPLE SENTENCE: I shared the synopsis of the movie “Avenger: Infinity

War “ to my classmates who have not watch it yet.


16. WORD: Miscellaneous

MEANING: other uncategorized stuff

SAMPLE SENTENCE: I organized my miscellaneous items by group.

17. WORD: Susceptible

MEANING: Likely to allow or be affected by something.

SAMPLE SENTENCE: I’m not susceptible to noises when reading books.

18. WORD: Wanly

MEANING: Sickly or pale

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Brandon looked wanly after he got sick.

19. WORD: Miser

MEANING: Person who hoards money.

SAMPLE SENTENCE: My father is a miser, so he could buy his own car.

20. WORD: Derision

MEANING: Make fun of


SAMPLE SENTENCE: The boy with a bunny teeth is my classmate’s derision.

21. WORD: Bloated

MEANING: Swell

SAMPLE SENTENCE: My stomach feels bloated after eating many food.

22. WORD: Gist

MEANING: Main point of a matter

SAMPLE SENTENCE: For them to understand the moral of “The

Monkey an the Turtle”, Techer Rosa gives the gist

of the story to her class.

23. WORD: Prosaic

MEANING: Dull

SAMPLE SENTENCE:: Lackness of sleep makes him look prosaic.


24. WORD: Lull

MEANING: Make or become quiet or relaxed

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The Librarian ring the bell to lull the noisy students.

25. WORD: Perfunctory

MEANING: Done merly as a duty

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Watering plants became my perfuntory every morning.

26. WORD: Paucity

MEANING: Shortage

SAMPLE SENTENCE: During El Niño we have paucity of water.

27. WORD: Tenacious

MEANING: Holding fast;retentive

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The tenacious dog learned the tricks easily.

28. WORD: Induce


MEANING: Persuade; bring about

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Elmar induce Mama Fe to buy him a bike.

29. WORD: Stipulated

MEANING: Demand as condition.

SAMPLE SENTECE: Miss Robinson stipulated her rules in the house.

30. WORD: Queer

MEANING: Different from the usual or normal.

SAMPLE SENTENCE: I’d just saw a lot of queer-people inside the Horror House

at Star City.

31. WORD: Compel

MEANING: Cause through necessity

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Having a better future compels me to work harder.

32. WORD: Coyly


MEANING: Shy or pretending shyness

SAMPLE SENTENCE: I walked out of the room wondering about his coyly

smile.

33. WORD: Insaitable

MEANING: Incapable of being satisfied

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Discontentment causes insatiable feeling.

34. WORD: Benevolent

MEANING: Characterized by oe expressing good will or kindly feeling.

SAMPLE SENTENCE: A benevolent man shares his blessings with the poor

families.

35. WORD: Balony

MEANING: foolishness; nonsense

SAMPLE SENTENCE: All he said was a balony, because he is not telling the

truth.

36. WORD: Conundrum


MEANING: Riddle

SAMPLE SENTENCE: We tried to answer our teacher’s tricky conundrum.

37. WORD: Abstruse

MEANING: Hard to understand

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Math problems are abstruse if you dont review

your lessons.

38. WORD: Cerebrate

MEANING: Think

SAMPLE SENTENCE: You must cerebrate your words to avoid hurting other’s

feelings.

39 . WORD: Putrid

MEANING: rotten

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The putrid egg smells awful.

40. WORD: Primal

MEANING: Original or primitive


SAMPLE SENTENCE: Homohabilis is the primal evidence of human evolution.

41. WORD: Lax

MEANING: Not strict or tense

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The student feels lax everytime there is an oral recitation.

42. WORD: Adept

MEANING: highly skill

SAMPLE SENTENCE: I want to be an adept gamer someday .

43. WORD: Maudlin

MEANING: Stupidly sentimental

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Most of the TV series in the Philippines have maudlin

plots.

44. WORD: Bellow

MEANING: Make a loud deep roar or shout

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The class was amazed by the lions bellowed tone.
45. WORD: Elicit

MEANING: Draw forth

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The burger shop sell a buy one take one promo to elicit

customers.

46. WORD: Contrive

MEANING: bring about;devise or make with wisdom

SAMPLE SENTENCE: Having a peaceful and a contrive mind makes a person

happy.

47. WORD: Tout

MEANING: praise or publicize loudly

SAMPLE SENTENCE: I toutedly shout my perfect score infront of my classmate.

48. WORD: Retaliate

MEANING: Get revenge


SAMPLE SENTENCE: My classmate teases me, intead of retaliating I become

nicer to them.

49. WORD: Erroneous

MEANING: Wrong

SAMPLE SENTENCE: The erroneous answers in my test paper got me halfof

the score.

50. WORD: Garrulous

MEANING: Talkative

SAMPLE SENTENCE: My big brother’s garrulous attitude makes him the center

of attention.

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