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Danielle Keaton March 19, 2012 Vocabulary demulcent, demurrage, dendroid, deponent, derrick detrude, discursive, distrain, divagate,

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1. The demulcent cough syrup claimed to alleviate a sore throat in 24 hours or less. 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 mucous membranes in the mouth by forming a protective film Demurrage: the detention of a ship by the freighter beyond the time allowed for loading, unloading, or sailing; a charge for detaining a ship, freight car, or truck Dendroid: tree-shaped; arborescent; branching Deponent: (of a verb, esp. in Latin or Greek) passive or middle in form but active in meaning; (grammar) a deponent verb; (law) a person who makes a deposition or affidavit under oath Derrick: a kind of crane with a movable pivoted arm for moving or lifting heavy weights, esp. on a ship; the framework over an oil well or similar boring that 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.

(of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive rather than formulaic or abbreviated : the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive. 2 of or relating to discourse or modes of discourse : the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another. 3 archaic Philosophy proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition. Distrain: to force or compel to satisfy an obligation by means of a distress; to seize by distress Divagate: to wonder or stray from a course or subject; diverge; digress Dolor: a state of great sorrow or distress

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