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Vocabulary Insights: Definitions & Examples

The document discusses several words and their definitions including thunderbolt meaning a bolt or shaft believed to be the destructive agent in a lightning flash, scrumptious meaning extremely good tasting food, and concussion being a type of traumatic brain injury caused by a blow to the head.

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Vocabulary Insights: Definitions & Examples

The document discusses several words and their definitions including thunderbolt meaning a bolt or shaft believed to be the destructive agent in a lightning flash, scrumptious meaning extremely good tasting food, and concussion being a type of traumatic brain injury caused by a blow to the head.

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Thunderbolt

a supposed bolt or shaft believed to be the destructive


agent in a lightning flash, especially as an attribute of a
god such as Jupiter or Thor.
The idea hit her like a thunderbolt.

Scrumptiously
If you describe food as scrumptious, you mean that it tastes
extremely good.

A blend of coconut flour and sweet rice flour can make a


scrumptious coating for coconut shrimp

Furthermore
in addition; besides (used to introduce a fresh consideration in
an argument).

I don't want to go there, furthermore, I have no time to do so.

Concussion
A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury—or TBI—caused
by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body
that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth

She suffered a severe concussion after falling on the ice.


.

Ebullience
the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or
feelings : exuberance.

As he sat slumped on the sofa, his natural ebullience had


evaporated.
Straightforward

uncomplicated and easy to do or understand

She is very blunt, very straightforward and very honest.

Haphazard

lacking any obvious principle of organization.

The investigation does seem haphazard.

Auspicious

showing or suggesting that future success is likely

My sincere congratulations on this auspicious event of yours.

Commencement
a ceremony in which degrees or diplomas are conferred on
graduating students

Maybe the goats had some kind of control over commencement


of labor.

Fulfillment
the act or process of fulfilling the fulfillment of a promise
the fulfillment of all the requirements

He was willing to face any hardship in fulfillment of his duty.


Tremulous

characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors

She opened the letter with tremulous hands.

Disbursement
the act of paying out money especially from a fund : the act of
disbursing the disbursement of government funds also : funds
paid out received monthly disbursements.

Stephanie receives a monthly disbursement from her parents'


trust fund.

Childish

of, relating to, or befitting a child or childhood childish


desires for toys.
She has a childish face

Amorphous
having no definite form : shapeless an amorphous cloud mass.

A dark, strangely amorphous shadow filled the room

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