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Intensive Vocabulary Builder

::: voracious - ravenous; eating large quantities of food;
exceedingly eager; insatiable; Ex. voracious animal/reader
::: unaccountable - unexplicable; impossible to account for;
unreasonable or mysterious
::: prerogative - privilege; unquestionable right; CF. ask before
::: effrontery - rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless
boldness; presumptousness; nerve; cheek
::: cache - hiding place; V.
::: abut - border upon; adjoin
::: avid - greedy; extremely eager for; Ex. avid learner; N. avidity
::: desperate - having lost all hope; despairing; reckless and
violent because of loss of hope or despair; undertaken as a last
resort
::: pessimism - belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess;
tendency to take the gloomiest possible view of a situation; ADJ.
pessimistic
::: portend - foretell; presage; be a sign or warning of; N. portent:
sign; omen; forewarning
Instruction: Make a good sentence based on the vocabulary.
1. Voracious
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2. Uncountable
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3. Prerogative
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4. Effrontery
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5. Cache
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6. Abut
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7. Avid

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8. Desperate
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9. Pessimism
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10. Portend
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