Word 1
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Pellucid (adj): translucent, clear, easily understood,
(music) clear and pure in tone.
Mr. Frog often ran into the pellucid sliding door.
Words 2 and 3
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Alacrity (noun): brisk and cheerful readiness,
eagerness, willingness
Mr. Frog’s alacrity waned when he discovered the fly he was chasing was actually
a piece of fluff.
Corroborate (verb): to confirm or give support to,
endorse, verify
The gifted jar of flies corroborated Mr. Frog’s love for Lady Frog.
Words 4 and 5
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Magnanimous (adj): very generous or forgiving, especially toward
a rival or someone less powerful than oneself.
Lady Frog’s magnanimous nature caused her to share the jar of flies with Mr.
Frog.
Mercurial (adj):subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood
or mind.
When Lady Frog acts mercurial, Mr. Frog picks flowers for her and stays quiet.
Words 6 and 7
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Scrupulous (adj): diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive
to details.
Mr. Frog’s scrupulous inspection of the jar left no fly uneaten.
Dogmatic (adj):characterized by expressing opinions very
strongly or positively as if they were facts
Mr. Frog’s dogmatic views about recycling meant that his
friends never threw away paper in his presence.
Words 8 and 9
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Ameliorate (verb): to make better or more tolerable.
Mr. Frog could not ameliorate the situation after he was
caught canoodling with Mrs. Frog’s sister.
Obsequious (adj): dutiful, obedient or attentive to an
excessive degree.
Mr. Frog’s new obsequious habits will not make Mrs. Frog
forgive him any time soon.
Words 10 and 11
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Fortuitous (adj): happening by accident or chance rather
than by design
It was fortuitous that Mrs. Frog’s sister died after Mr. Frog
canoodled with her.
Prosaic (adj): ordinary, commonplace, unimaginative, boring
Toad thought funerals were prosaic, so he refused to attend.
Words 12 and 13
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Prudent (adj): acting with or showing care and thought for the future,
wise, sensible
Mr. Frog’s prudent decision to buy flowers for Mrs. Frog cheered her up after her
sister’s death.
Esoteric (adj): intended for or likely to be understood by only a small
number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, obscure,
abstract
Mr. Frog’s discussion of various fly textures seemed esoteric to Squirrel.
Words 14 and 15
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Cacophony (noun): a harsh, discordant mixture of
sounds
A cacophony erupted at the funeral when everyone found out Mr.
Frog had canoodled with the deceased.
Impetuous (adj): done quickly without much thought
or care, moving forcefully or rapidly
Lady Frog’s impetuous nature caused her to slam the door in Mr.
Frog’s face in front of all her relatives.
Words 16 and 17
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Extant (adj): still in existence, surviving
Mr. Frog is the only extant member of his family; the rest of
them were washed away in a flood.
Didactic (adj):intended to teach, particularly in having
moral instruction as a motive.
Lady Frog’s didactic actions did not teach Mr. Frog the
intended lesson.
Words 18 and 19
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Pithy (adj): concise and forcefully expressive, succinct
Mr. Frog’s pithy response to Lady Frog earned him yet another
night on the couch.
Adulterate (verb): to make something poorer in quality by
adding another substance, typically an inferior one.
Lady Frog adulterated Mr. Frog’s coffee with Sweet-n-Low knowing
that the aspartame within causes cancer.
Words 20 and 21
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Vociferous (adj): loud, consistently clamorous
Aardvark was persistently vociferous while playing
violent video games.
Taciturn (adj): disclined to talk, quiet
Sloth rarely said anything to Mr. Frog due to his taciturn
nature.
Words 22 and 23
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Misanthrope (noun): someone who hates people and
avoids human interaction
After the news of her husband’s canoodling ways spread around,
Mrs. Frog became a misanthrope.
Inculpate (verb): to accuse or blame
Mrs. Frog hoped that no one would inculpate her for what
happened to her sister, even though a bloody knife lay buried in her
backyard.
Words 24 and 25
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Prevaricate (verb): to speak falsely or misleadingly;
deliberately misstate; lie
Aardvark prevaricated every time someone asked him
how he knew Mrs. Frog’s sister.
Diffident (adj): lacking confidence in one's own ability or
worth; timid; shy
If Mr. Sloth wasn’t so diffident, he might have told
someone what he knew about Aardvark.
Words 26 and 27
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Erudite (adj): having great knowledge or learning
After divorcing Mr. Frog, Lady Frog, the most erudite of the
family, earned her PhD.
Anachronism (noun): a thing belonging to a period of time
other than that in which it exists
The dinosaur crossing the road was not the only anachronism
Aardvark saw on the morning of Pamela Frog’s death.
Words 28 and 29
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Prodigal (adj): spending money or resources freely and
recklessly; wastefully extravagant
Aardvark became quite prodigal and started collecting first edition
comic books to distract himself from the truth.
Soporific (adj): tending to induce drowsiness or sleep
Since Mr. Frog was shunned from society for his canoodling ways,
he has to drink something soporific in order to fall asleep.
Words 30 and 31
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Loquacious (adj) (syn:garrulous): talkative
Squirrel was not particularly loquacious; he preferred burying
people over talking to them.
Equivocate (verb): to use ambiguous language so as to
conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
Lady Frog equivocated when the police asked her where she had
been the night her sister died.
Words 32 and 33
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Ephemeral (adj): lasting for a very short time
Mr. Frog now knows that marriages can be ephemeral.
Pusillanimous (adj): timid, lacking courage
Mrs. Frog, now Ms. Frog, was known as a pusillanimous
member of the forest since she jumped at every little sound.