GRE vocabulary fun #2

ABATE; i.e., A’bate my hook to reduce the risk of not catchin’ no fishes.

ANTAGONIZE; i.e., My ant’agonized me after she thought I done took her liver for my bate.

CANDID; i.e., I told her I didn’t, but also that her candid not need the liver anyway.

That was a bad thing to tell her.

DECORUM; i.e., She telled my uncle, “His decorum fer this house is off!”

DISSEMBLE; i.e., I fig’erd I was in t-r-o-u-b-l-e, so I dissemble’d my pole and pretended not to mind.

EPHEMERAL; i.e., I thought ephemeral gonna be mad at me, I’ll just run away for a lil’ while!

So off I ran to my favorite spot to think.

FANATICAL; i.e., I kept thinkin’ of a few things: she’s extree fanatical about her food,

IMPETUOUS; i.e., she’s extree accusative, blaming me, saying, “Im’pet’uous always the first to snore”,

LETHARGIC; i.e., and she’s pretty lethargic on Sundays, and Mondays, and all days between.

These thoughts weren’t makin’ me feel any ‘appier, so I changed targets.

OBSEQUIOUS; i.e., I was always being demanded to obsequiously acquiesce church-activity invites.

PHILANTHROPY; i.e., Me and my friends, Phil’an’Thropy, thought doing good deeds stank.

PUNGENT; i.e., Like when we was forced to help at the old folks home – that was just plain pungent.

TIRADE; i.e., I soon realized I had tirade from my anger, so I went fer a run to clear my mind.