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Danielle KeatonMarch 19, 2012
Vocabulary
demulcent, demurrage, dendroid, deponent, derrickdetrude,
discursive, distrain, divagate, dolor
1. The demulcent cough syrup claimed to alleviate a sore throat
in 24 hours orless.
2. The demurrage of the Miss Anne lasted for 10 days and cost an
additional$5000.
3. Unsurprisingly, family trees are dendroid.4. Examples of
deponents include to exhort, to fear, and to speak, all of
which are passive in form and active in meaning.5. In order to
construct big ships, derricks must be used to move or lift
heavy
materials.
6. The kidnapper detruded the drug down his victim's throat.7.
It is not uncommon for beginning writers to fall into the trap of
writing
discursively.8. The bank distrained the family's home for
failure to consistently make the
mortgage payments.9. Even the most skilled, most powerful
orators divagate in their speeches from
time to time.10. People in extreme dolor should be helped so
that they do not become
seriously depressed.
Demulcent: soothing; a substance that relieves irritation of the
mucousmembranes in the mouth by forming a protective film
Demurrage: the detention of a ship by the freighter beyond the
time allowedfor loading, unloading, or sailing; a charge for
detaining a ship, freight car, ortruck
Dendroid: tree-shaped; arborescent; branching
Deponent: (of a verb, esp. in Latin or Greek) passive or middle
in form butactive in meaning; (grammar) a deponent verb; (law) a
person who makes adeposition or affidavit under oath
Derrick: a kind of crane with a movable pivoted arm for moving
or liftingheavy weights, esp. on a ship; the framework over an oil
well or similar boringthat holds the drilling machinery.
Detrude: to force down or thrust away or out
Discursive:1 digressing from subject to subject : students often
write dull, secondhand,discursive prose.
