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Monday, March 27, 2006
  For your next vocabulary quiz
These are the words for your next vocabulary quiz (the week after Semana Santa). You need to pick 10 of the words below and (1) give the translation in Spanish, (2) give a definition of the word in English, and (3) use the word in an example sentence. All of this must be done in a comment to this blog posting. These are all words that you might see in high-level business writing, on the TOEFL, or on an exam like the GRE or GMAT, if you decided to get your MBA some day!

  1. Expedite
  2. Considerate
  3. Convey
  4. Coalesce
  5. Discount
  6. Esoteric
  7. Gullible
  8. Jargon
  9. Liaison
  10. Legacy
  11. Myriad
  12. Manifest
  13. Nominal
  14. Oust
  15. Placate
  16. Pretentious
  17. Prudent
  18. Quell
  19. Rebuke
  20. Stoic
  21. Tenuous
  22. Corroborate
  23. Trite
  24. Urbane
  25. Viable
  26. Vie
  27. Waver
  28. Prolific
  29. Incessant
  30. Censure
 
Comments:
Urbane: (adjective)
suave, sophisticated, polished

Example: Tanya began to miss the more urbane men back in the city--men who would not be swayed in any way by the opinions of others.
 
Discount:Descuento
Esoteric:Esterico
Legacy:Legado
Prudent:Prudente
Incesant:Incesante
Censure:Censurar
Considerate:Considerar
Pretentious:Pretencioso
Corroborate:Corroborar
Manifest:Manifiesto
 
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