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Vocabulary Definitions and Usage

The document defines and provides examples for the words: abate, abdicate, aberrant, abhor, abjure, and abrasive. Definitions include to reduce or diminish, formally give up a throne or power, abnormal or deviant, detest with disgust, give up or renounce under oath, and rough or irritating.

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Vocabulary Definitions and Usage

The document defines and provides examples for the words: abate, abdicate, aberrant, abhor, abjure, and abrasive. Definitions include to reduce or diminish, formally give up a throne or power, abnormal or deviant, detest with disgust, give up or renounce under oath, and rough or irritating.

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DEFFINATION :

Abate
REDUCE , DIMINISH
USAGE :
HER STRESS OVER SPENDING TOO

(verb)
MUCH MONEY ON A HOUSE ABATED
WHEN THE REAL ESTATE BROKER TOLD
HER ABOUT THE PROPERTIES 15-YEAR
TAX ABATEMENT.
DEFFINATION :
FORMALLY GIVE-UP
THE THRONE (OR
SOME OTHER POWER
Abdicate
OR RESPONSIBILITY)
USAGE :
(verb)
KING EDWARD VIII OF ENGLAND
FAMOUSLY ABDICATED THE THRONE
IN ORDER TO MARRY AN AMERICAN
DIVORCEE . / PARENTS CAN BE
CHANGED WITH NEGLECT FOR
ABDICATING THEIR
RESPONSIBILITIES TO THEIR
CHILDREN.
DEFFINATION :
ABNORMAL ,
DEVIENT
Aberrant
USAGE :
THE TEENS ABERRANT BEHAVIOR

(adj)
MADE HIS FAMILY SUSPECT THAT
HE WAS USING DRUGS . / LOSING
RATHER THEN GAINING WEIGHT
OVER THE HOLIDAYS IS
CERTAINLY AN ABERRATION.
DEFFINATION :

Abhor
DETEST , REGARD WITH
DISGUST
USAGE :

(verb)
“GO OUT WITH YOU ?” SHE REPLIED . I
ABHOR YOU! I WOULD RATHER STAB
MYSELF WITH A RUSTY KNIFE THAN BE
YOUR GIRLFRIEND.
DEFFINATION :
GIVE UP , RE ANNOUNCE
, REPUDIATE , RECENT,

Abjure
OR SHUN (ESPECIALLY
FORMALLY OR UNDER
OATH)

(verb)
USAGE :
TO BECOME A CITIZEN OF UNITED
STATES , YOU MUST BE ABJURE
LOYALTY TO THE NATION OF YOUR
BIRTH. / SINCE ENROLLING IN THE
NUTRITION CLASS, SHE HAS ABJURED
SUGAR AND SATURATED FAT.
DEFFINATION :
ROUGH , SUITABLE FOR
GRINDING OR
POLISHING (SUCH AS

Abrasive
SANDPAPER) ;
CAUSING IRRITATION OR
ANNOYANCE

(adj) USAGE :
COULD THE INSIDE OF THE MASCOT
COSTUME BE ANY MORE ABRASIVE ?
IT’S RUBBING MY SKIN RAW! I HAVE
SOME SERIOUSLY ABRASIVE REMARKS
FOR WHOMEVER DESIGNED THIS
THING.

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