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<p>herod got eaten by worms because of his vaunt</p>

<p>rainmaker</p>

502

<p>Andrea Jung, one of the leaders of Avon, is considered as an amazing rainmaker for fantastic successes of the brand name Avon during the last 20 years. </p>

<p>Among Native Americans, farmers were looking for rainmakers to help them overcome brutal droughts.</p>

<p>necromancy</p>

503

<p>Enjoying witchcraft, Sally often took part in necromancy.</p>

<p>chipmunk</p>

504

<p>In 1940s, Walt Disney launched the cartoon series Chip 'n Dale with two talking animated chipmunks. </p>

<p>usurp</p>

505

<p>In the movie, Johnny English, the evil French man tried to usurp the English throne.</p>

<p>ubiquitous</p>

506

<p>An exterminator was called for the ubiquitous ants.</p>

<p>loquacious</p>

507

<p>Everyone in the library turned around to look at who the loquacious girl was.</p>

<p>nebulous</p>

508

<p>Both of them lied down on the grass looking at the nebulous clouds</p>

<p>Sanctimonious</p>

509

<p>The man was sanctimonious, he prayed 100 times a day but did so only to appear pious</p>

<p>byzantine</p>

510

<p>The **Byzantine **empire is one of the earliest civilizations.</p>

<p>onerous</p>

511

<p>Taxing duties are onerous</p>

<p>umbrage</p>

512

<p>The coach saw umbrage in his player’s eyes. </p>

<p>penchant</p>

513

<p>The mathematician had a penchant for deriving and integrating.
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pretentious**</p>

514

<p>everyone called him **pretentious **peter when he joined the football team because they knew he was a nerd at heart.</p>

<p>paisano</p>

515

<p>Everyone on campus knew Jared and Oliver were paisanos because they were always seen together talking or playing football.</p>

<p>altruistic</p>

516

<p>The altruistic woman dedicated her whole life to volunteer work because she had a sense of duty.</p>

<p>prurient</p>

517

<p>oh cool, i never noticed that the words prurient and prurigo came from the same root. the latter refers to itching in a literal way, but the former uses it figuratively, as in itching to y’know.</p>

<p>cornscateous</p>

518

<p>sorry for breaking the trend of vocabulary… can someone post all of these words into the word file and it would be useful to review them.</p>

519

<p>jsmith7651: PM Tsenguun</p>

520

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