The document discusses various vocabulary words through examples of how they are used in sentences. Some of the words described include nefarious, oxymoron, metaphor, redundant, urbane, monsoon, verbosity, virago, bellicose, pariah, horripilation, furtive, moribund, desultory, optimistic, philanderer, mollify, nemesis, gregarious, and convivial.

1. Vocabulary.By Jeffrey Wong

2. The riddler was a very nefarious person. He always tricks the bad man.

3. My dad had to repair our hot water heater. That in itself is an oxymoron.

4. Josephs girlfriend told him that his heart was made of stone. She used a metaphor to get the point across.

5. My mother is so redundant, when she yells at me to do my homework.

6. In the olden days, the woman were very elegant. They were urbane.

7. My favorite time to visit Arizona, is during monsoon season. The sky gets dark and lightning flashes.

8. The verbosity of the teacher, put all the kids to sleep.

9. My mother is a virago. She is always yelling at me and being mean.

10. Most adults now a days think teenagers are bellicose and rowdy.

11. While driving through town, Joey noticed the pariah sitting by himself on the outside of town.

12. He thought her horripitation was from either the zombie in the movie or the air in the movie theater.

13. The boy was tired of sneaking furtive looks and decided to ask her out.

14. After having cancer for seven years, Tim’s father was at a state of moribund.

15. I remember as a child, I was desultory. I never could pick a subject, and I liked to switch.

16. The people who write the Disney movies are very optimistic. All the movies end with a happy ending.

17. The man was such a philanderer, he had a new girlfriend almost every week.

18. The anger management teachers job was to mollify the people taking the course. HAPPPY (:ANGER!

19. Rodriguez high school is Benicia's nemesis in most sports at school.

20. My dog Jessie likes going to the dog park to play with other dogs. She is gregarious.

21. Family night is a very convivial time for my family during the week. We all come together for stories and food and laughter.