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Sentence #23
When positioned in contrast to the erudite Ravenclaws students, audacious and intrepid
Gryffindor students, and the iconoclastic Slytherin students, Hufflepuff students seemed at
most credulous in the gradation of student houses at Hogwarts. They were castigated for
their cowardice but never appreciated for having such epicures in their midst such as the
legendary Hufflepuff ghost, the Fat Friar. While no one disagreed that Hufflepuff's
argument in terms of bravery was quiescent when compared to Gryffindor, the argument
about Hufflepuff students' desultory interests was attenuated and deemed as precipitate
when people actually studied the genius of founder, Helga Hufflepuff. Helga and other
Hufflepuff students' seemingly reticent nature was, in fact, a dilatory measure in order to
display humility and kindness to other students. When amalgamated with Hufflepuff
students' tough and honest work-ethic, people should begin to see the honor that being a
Hufflepuff carries.
erudite: learned; scholarly; bookish

audacious: fearless and daring
intrepid: fearless; resolutely courageous
iconoclast: one who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions
credulous: too trusting; gullible
gradation: process occurring by regular degrees or stages; variation in color
castigate: to punish or criticize harshly
epicure: person with refined taste in food and wine
quiescent: motionless
desultory: jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
attenuate: to reduce in force or degree; weaken
precipitate: to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
dilatory: intended to delay
amalgamate: to combine; to mix together
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Sentence #22
Nobody acted circumspect or reticent when presented with Mrs. Weasley's cooking. On the
contrary, they would act querulous and lack deference if they were not the first in line to try
her delicious food. Even though waiting in line meant forestalling the scrumptious
concoctions, those waiting in line husbanded their energy so they may later propitiate their
appetite. When the food reached their mouth, all the recipients' gastronomical cavities were
very plastic which enervated all other senses except the sense of taste. Listless and
melancholy when all the food had disappeared, all guests at the Weasley kitchen glibly
recited numerous elegies and dirges remembering the food while it lasted. But how was such
a beautiful meal to be reincarnated? All members of the table, even dilettantes such as
Hermione's cat Crookshanks, partook in a machination to encourage Mrs. Weasley to cook
more...muahahaha.
circumspect: cautious; aware of potential consequences

reticent: silent; reserved
querulous: inclined to complain; irritable
deference: respect; courtesy
forestall: to prevent or delay; anticipate
husband: to manage economically; to use sparingly
propitiate: to conciliate; to appease
plastic: able to be molded, altered or bent
enervate: to reduce in strength
listless: lacking energy and enthusiasm
glib: fluent in an insincere manner; offhand; casual
elegy: a sorrowful poem or speech
dirge: a funeral hymn or mournful speech
dilettante: someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
machination: plot or scheme
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Sentence #21
Charlie Weasley and Hagrid both had an obstinate panache about them: they loved dragons.
Not only did they not believe that dragons' molting was the most noisome smell in the world
(as do most individuals), but they also thought it a euphony when dragons cried in a surly
crescendo. Living with such convoluted creatures developed a sense of obdurate confidence
and plebeian manners in these gentlemen, who mitigated the fears of novice dragon tenders
by convincing them that dragons were not the typical misanthropes that people thought
them to be. While most people consider dragons' mere presence to be an opprobrium,
Charlie and Hagrid's unconditional love for these creatures gradually rarefied most peoples'
intolerance. At least in Romania where Charlie lives, whenever a dragon is insulted in
public, it has now become an exigent feature of society to respond with the
neologism: "Dragons are hawt, and you're not...burrrrn".
obstinate: stubborn; unyielding

panache: flamboyance or dash in style and action; verve
molt: to shed hair, skin, or an outer layer periodically
noisome: stinking; putrid
surly: rude and bad-tempered

crescendo: steadily increasing in volume or force
euphony: pleasant, harmonious sound
convoluted: intricate and complicated
obdurate: hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
plebeian: crude or coarse; characteristic of commoners
mitigate: to soften; to lessen
neophyte: novice; beginner
misanthrope: a person who dislikes others
opprobrium: public disgrace
rarefy: to make thinner or sparser
exigent: urgent; requiring immediate action
neologism: new word or expression
Sentence #20
Rita Skeeter's journalistic chicanery was hardly estimable in the eyes of educated Daily
Prophet readers. In fact, most of these readers repudiated her work, believing her intentions
to be inimical and her work as inchoate garbage. By eulogizing certain individuals such as
Harry Potter and, in fact overpraising them through her panegyric, Rita obviated the need
for others' criticism: she was destroying her own career in the long-run. Rita attempted to
aggrandize her own self, garnering in her address book the names of numerous celebrities
and famous people, but in reality she occluded and desiccated from her own life the
potential of probity and well-deserved, meaningful work. When eventually faced with a
beetle-licious life, Rita found herself in such an impasse that she had no choice but to
change her bombastic ways.
chicanery: deception by means of craft or guile

estimable: admirable
repudiate: to reject the validity of
inimical: hostile; unfriendly
inchoate: not fully formed; disorganized
eulogy: speech in praise of someone
panegyric: elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise
obviate: to prevent; to make unnecessary
aggrandize: to increase in power, influence, and reputation
garner: to gather and store
occlude: to stop up; prevent the passage of
desiccate: to dry out thoroughly
probity: complete honesty and integrity
impasse: blocked path; dilemma with no solution

bombastic: pompous in speech and manner
Sentence #19
Harry failed at learning how to control his mind which his enemy filled with his evil mirth
and malediction. Harry lumbered to Snape's office, overwrought at his inability to combat
these negative thoughts through Snape's lessons. Snape, well-meaning at heart but slimy in
person, attempted to foment Harry's urgency but tired him out out even more, leaving
Harry in a state of utter lassitude. Angered at Snape's inability to placate Harry's concerns,
Harry deemed Occlumency lessons onerous and a waste of time and he jettisoned them for
good.
mirth: frivolity; gaiety; laughter

malediction: a curse; a wish of evil upon another
lumber: to move slowly and awkwardly
overwrought: agitated; overdone
foment: to arouse or incite
lassitude: a state of diminished energy
placate: to soothe or pacify
onerous: troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
jettison: to discard; to get rid of as unnecessary or encumbering
Sentence #18
Even while the prodigal Dudley nettles Harry with his nominally funny jokes and attacks,
Harry generally acts phlegmatic and perfunctory, pretending to study for Potions. He
responds to his cousin in a politic manner by prevaricating that nothing his cousin does will
ever seriously get to him.
prodigal: lavish or wasteful

nettle: to irritate
nominal: existing in name only; negligible
phlegmatic: calm and unemotional in temperament
perfunctory: done in a routine way; indifferent
politic (adj): shrewd and practical in managing or dealing with things; diplomatic
prevaricate: to lie or deviate from the truth
Sentence #17
At the end of their journey, Harry and Voldemort had both become restive to meet their
ostensible fate. Each devised a strategem in his mind believing in its sublime nature to
overcome the other. Little did each of them know that they were beginning to show taciturn
aloofness from their friends due to the stress involved in being the victor. Their emotional
stability and receptiveness to their peers had become opaque, and when anyone wanted to
come close, sometimes they would respond with tirades. While the novels show Harry as a
paragon of goodness and heroism and highlight Voldemort's salient evilness, it is an irony
how similar these two seemingly divergent personalities really are.
restive: impatient, uneasy, or restless

ostensible: apparent
stratagem: trick designed to deceive an enemy
sublime: lofty or grand
taciturn: silent; not talkative
opaque: impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
tirade: long, harsh speech or verbal attack
salient: prominent; of notable significance
paragon: model of excellence and perfection
Sentence #16
Already an international magnate in the Quidditch world, Viktor Krum displayed pithiness
and propriety when dealing with teammates, opponents and teachers at Hogwarts.
However, Krum was not as passionate of a pedant or student so he was known back at
Durmstrang Institute to malinger from his classes by flying in the rustic hills behind his
school. When asked by his teachers where he was, Krum chuckled and equivocated with his
love for studying about the history of brooms.
magnate: powerful or influential person

pithy (adj): profound or substantial yet concise, succinct and to the point
propriety: the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs
pedant: someone who shows off learning

malinger: to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
rustic: rural
equivocate: to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
Sentence #15
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, a group of keenly libertine students and chums,
exchanged furtive glances as they used the Marauder's Map to escape the banal castle
during lectures. They knew nobody in the group was perfidious enough to use their
loquaciousness to reveal the latent workings of the map. For that reason, the Marauder's
Map remains until today an impervious creation. For the rest of us Muggles and nongroupies, it is a hapless thing that we cannot utilize its wonders.
keen: having a sharp edge; intellectually sharp; perceptive

libertine: a free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraint
furtive: secret, stealthy
perfidious: willing to betray one's trust
loquacious: talkative
latent: potential that is not readily apparent
impervious: impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
hapless: unfortunate; having bad luck
Sentence #14
Dobby the house elf made the egregious mistake of trying to keep Harry from going to
Hogwarts in his second year. But since then, he's been obsequious to Harry, doing
everything possible to serve him. Dobby's dismal living conditions before Harry freed him
inspired Hermione's S.P.E.W. (Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare) campaign.
However, her exacting demands for 2 sickles for membership from every student wasn't
very cogent-people payed mostly to shut her up, not because they believed in the cause.
obsequious: characterized by servile complaisance; obedient.
tendentious: having a definite tendency, bias or purpose.
egregious: extraordinary in a bad way.
exacting: demanding, strict; not easily satisfied
cogent: having power to compel conviction
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sentence #13
Although Snape showed obvious antipathy towards Harry, Hermione just wouldn't believe
he was trying to kill the Boy Who Lived. She thought the evidence against Snape was
meretricious and didn't corroborate with Dumbledore's view of him. Hermione wanted an
inquest into his true motives and thought Ron and Harry were being ingenuous when they
refused to entertain Snape's loyalty to the Order.
inquest: investigation, inquiry

meretricious: falsely attractive, gaudy
corroborate: to support with evidence
antipathy: extreme dislike, animosity
ingenuous: showing innocence or childlike simplicity
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Sentence #12
An immaculate young lady at the time, Moaning Myrtle died while still a student at
Hogwarts at the hands of Tom Riddle. With few accepting her seemingly incredulous claims
that it was indeed brilliant Tom Riddle who killed her, the shiftless Myrtle resigned to her
apropros position of iring the attendees of the boys' bathroom with her insipid sarcasm and
moodiness.
immaculate: pure, faultless
incredulous: skeptical; unwilling to believe
shiftless: lacking resourcefulness or lacking in ambition
apropos: appropriate to the situation; apt
ire: to anger
insipid: without taste or flavor
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sentence #11
Buckbeak will always be remembered as a halcyon creature who showed forbearance even
while Draco Malfoy hectored her. Malfoy's ignominious hubris during class displays the
need for mandatory etiquette classes for Slytherin students to avoid such future gaucherie.
halcyon: calm and peaceful
forbearance: patience; willingness to wait
hector: to bully
ignominious: shameful; dishonorable; undignified; disgraceful
hubris: arrogant pride
gaucherie: socially awkward, tactless behavior
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Sentence #10
Draco Malfoy mostly left the pugilism to his cronies Crabbe and Goyle. He preferred to
make invidious remarks against people like the Weasleys who he liked to abase for being
much poorer than him. While his comments occasionally stung, the Weasleys had the
satisfaction of knowing that they were much richer in love, friends, and family than a puerile
ingrate like Malfoy would ever be.
pugilism: fighting, sparring, boxing
invidious: envious, obnoxious, or offensive; likely to promote ill-will
abase: to disgrace, to humble, demean, humiliate
puerile: childish, immature, silly
ingrate: ungrateful person
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Sentence #9
Fleur didn't think Mrs. Weasley was officious in planning her and Bill's wedding. The
phalanx of things to do seemed to accrete daily and would have left an acidulous taste in the
pit of Fleur's stomach if her mother-in-law-to-be wasn't there to help make sure no one's
contributing energies lay fallow and wasted.
officious: too helpful, meddlesome

phalanx: a compact or close-knit body of people, animals, or things
accrete: to grow in size, to increase in amount
acidulous: sour in taste or manner

fallow: dormant, unused
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Sentence #8
As the first year students sportively paraded into Honeydukes, they did not notice the
Spartan and stolid cashier warning them of the specious Explosive Tarts. The tarts were so
soporific that they caused the students to remain in a state of torpor until Hagrid called
them.
sportive: frolicsome, playful
stolid: unemotional, lacking sensitivity
specious: deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
Spartan: highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere
soporific: causing sleep or lethargy
torpor: extreme mental and physical sluggishness
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sentence #7
At their acme during O.W.L. exams, the students' stress levels were further amalgamated
with fears of Death Eaters on the run. As the students sank into a greater emotional abyss,
they realized these aberrations could only be alleviated or abated with the anodyne of
Hagrid's homemade treacle fudge.
acme: highest point, summit, the highest level or degree attainable
amalgamate: to combine, to mix together
anodyne: something that calms or soothes pain
aberration: deviation from the norm
abate: to reduce in amount, degree or severity
alleviate: to make more bearable
abyss: an extremely deep hole
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Sentence #6
Argus Filch lugubriously accepted that he wouldn't be able to hang Fred and George up by
their thumbs for filching the confiscated items from the coffer in his office. As much as he
tried to ingratiate himself to Dumbledore to bend the rules, the headmaster was intractable
in his decision and made rejoinders about such things as 'human rights' and the like.
lugubrious: sorrowful, mournful, dismal
coffer: strongbox, large chest for money
ingratiate: to gain favor with another by deliberate effort, to please somebody so as to gain
an advantage
intractable: not easily managed or manipulated, stubborn, unruly
rejoinder: response, retort, riposte
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sentence #5
As Professor Cuthbert Binns waffled throughout his arcane history lectures, he hardly
noticed the lack of plaudit from his second-year students. Hermione Granger was the only
vivacious student among the otherwise torpid class who considered Binns' accounts to be
yarns full of gems, each word of which she scribbled frugally with her blue ink quill.
waffle: to talk vaguely and without much result
arcane: concerning obscure knowledge
plaudit: praise, approval
vivacious: lively; high spirited
yarn: long entertaining story
torpid: sleeping; sluggish; lethargic; dormant
frugal: careful; economical
Sentence #4
Using mendacity, Crabbe and Goyle always managed to pass their final exams, innocuous to
none but themselves, by bilking off of Draco Malfoy's exam. Thankfully Professor Snape
caught them and excoriated them. However, that did not last too long as Lucius Malfoy
exculpated them by bribing Snape. Slytherin's internal workings remain a mystery to us all...
mendacity: dishonesty
innocuously: causing no harm
bilke: cheat
excoriate: severe criticism/self-righteously correcting

exculpate: to set free from blame/to clear from a charge of guilt
Sentence #3
Professor McGonagall's polemic against unruly students often leaves them so contrite that it
makes them ill enough to seek help from Madam Pomfrey to make them salubrious again.
However, while McGonagall may come off as a martinet, she can also be surprisingly blithe
at times.
polemic: controversy, argument, verbal attack, denunciation, refutation.
contrite: deeply sorrowful, repentant for a wrong
salubrious: healthful, curative
martinet: strict disciplinarian, one who rigidly follows rules
blithe: joyful, cheerful, or w/o appropriate thought, carefree
Sentence #2
Neville Longbottom, an extremely timorous individual, gains temerity mercurially upon
rediscovering his parents' courageous past; no longer obsequious, Neville changes into a
percipient character who offers moral support for Dumbledore's army.
timorous: afraid
temerity: boldness/brashness/intrepidness
mercurial/ly: quick/changeable in characater/fleeting
obsequious: seeking to please/falsely flattering (others)
percipient: insightful
Sentence #1
I postulate that Dumbledore is indeed a sagacious and rather hoary man. His perspicacity is
unequivocal. He never upbraids corybantic students and doesn't show umbrage at Professor
Umbridge, though she deserves it. He also never vacillates in his morals, nor is he prone to
solecisms- he is a vestige of classier times.
postulate: to claim the existence of truth of

sagacious: shrewd, wise
hoary: very old
perspicacity: (see sagacious)
unequivocal: absolute, certain
corybantic: frenetic, frenzied
umbrage: offense, resentment
vacillate: to be indecisive, or to physically sway
solecism: grammatical mistake, blunder in speech

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erudite: learned; scholarly; bookish

circumspect: cautious; aware of potential consequences

obstinate: stubborn; unyielding

surly: rude and bad-tempered

chicanery: deception by means of craft or guile

impasse: blocked path; dilemma with no solution

mirth: frivolity; gaiety; laughter

prodigal: lavish or wasteful

restive: impatient, uneasy, or restless

magnate: powerful or influential person

pedant: someone who shows off learning

keen: having a sharp edge; intellectually sharp; perceptive

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inquest: investigation, inquiry

officious: too helpful, meddlesome

acidulous: sour in taste or manner

excoriate: severe criticism/self-righteously correcting

postulate: to claim the existence of truth of

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