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The Pigman Vocabulary -Chapters 1 & 2-

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Directions For each vocab word, look at the picture and example sentences. Make a guess with your partner about the definition. When shown the correct definition, put it in your vocabulary notes.

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Avocation Playing soccer is my favorite avocation, but I also like to cook.

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Avocation Noun A hobby

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Excruciating My broken arm was excruciating until they gave me pain medicine.

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Excruciating Adjective Intensely painful

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Raunchy The joke he told me was too raunchy to tell my mom. CENSORED

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Rauncy Adjective Dirty or obscene; rude

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Subliminal Because of her subliminal desire to own a dog, she began walking by the pet store on the way home.

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Subliminal Adjective Existing in the unconscious or subconscious

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Repress The memory was too painful, so she had to repress it. ???

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Repress Verb To purposefully forget

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Assert He continues to assert that his girlfriend goes to another school even though we know he doesnt have one.

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Assert Verb To state positively, claim

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Infantile He was embarrassed by his friends infantile behavior at the school dance.

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Infantile Adjective Childish, immature

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Compulsive I had the compulsive urge to pick the lint off her shirt.

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Compulsive Adjective Not able to be stopped; irresistible

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Impressionable Her mom told her not to cuss in front of her impressionable younger brother.

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Impressionable Adjective Easily influenced

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Mortified I was mortified when my brother read my diary out loud to his friends.

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Mortified Adject Extremely embarrassed