Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Vocabulary

Apartheid
any system or practice that separates people according to color, ethnicity, caste, etc.
I hope no one introduces apartheid.
Anticipated
To perform (an action) before another has had time to act.
They stabbed a hole in a person anticipatedly.
Chagrined
a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
He felt chargrined because everyone kept on teasing him.
Frog-marched
to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.
The police man made the made the people frog-march around town.
Remnant
a small remaining quantity of something.

She had a remnant amount of food left in her house.

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