1. 7 Week 10 Blatant (adj): obvious; conspicuous Adv: blatantly N: blatancy

2. Cater (v): to provide food, service, etc.; to indulge someone

3. Notorious (adj): widely known for bad reasons Adv: notoriously N: notoriety N: notoriousness

4. Inundate (v): to flood; to overwhelm N: inundation

5. Impede (v): to slow the movement or progress of something; to obstruct N: impediment

6. Customary (adj): usual; according to custom or habit Adv: customarily

7. Dismal (adj): gloomy; dreary; cheerless Adv: dismally N: dismalness

8. Compound Sentence: a sentence made up of 2 or more independent clauses. – Join them with a COMMA AND a conjunction. – Or, join them with a semicolon.