Staunch

Hachikō was an Akita dog remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner, even many years after his owner’s death.

In 1924, Professor Ueno took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet. During his owner’s life, Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno died, never returning to the train station where Hachikō was waiting. Each day for the next nine years Hachikō awaited Ueno’s return, appearing precisely when the train was due at the station.

Cower

People generally do not cower in front of milk cows, but cows actually kill more people than sharks.

1 person a year is killed by sharks.

22 people are killed in the U.S. every year from seemingly docile cows.

Coalesce

Pronounced “coal – a – less”

A sentence would be: Water droplets coalesce to become a water puddle.

Virulent

AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system.

The HIV virus remains dormant in the body for a long time, and then becomes virulent.

Abhor

Abhor is a easy word to remember if you remember this picture.

Bombast

A bombastic person is generally arrogant.

This picture is of “LITTLE BOY,” the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 by Boeing B-29 during World War II.

Wow. All of a sudden this post became really depressing.

Assuage

The pronunciation is “A- swayge”.

It is not pronounced “A-sausage” even though I have drawn a saugage.

Aesthetic

Vincent van Gogh (March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died aged 37. Only after his death, his art had become enormously popular.

Today, his aesthetic style and use of color is emulated my artists.

Vocab word: Unctuous

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A lot of us have that one family member who is unctuous as a pot of pig lard.

Vocab word: Virulent

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Virulent (adj.) dangerous, harmful