Monday, August 19, 2013

Vocab #1

1. adumbrate - To outline; give a faint indication of. To foreshadow.
 

2. apotheosis - The elevation or exaltation of a person to rank; to divine status.

3. ascetic - Practices self-denial or self-mortification.


4. bauble - A trinket.


5. beguile - To charm or divert.


6. burgeon - To grow or develop quickly.

 
7. complement - Something that completes or makes perfect.


8. contumacious - stubbornly perverse or rebellion.


9. curmudgeon - A bad tempered difficult person.


10. didactic - Teaching; intended to teach. Intended for instruction; instructive.


11. disingenuous - Falsely or hypercritical.

 
12. exculpate - to clear from a charge of guilt or fault.


13. faux pas - An embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.


14. fulminate - To issue denunciation or the like.

 
15. fustian - Inflated language in writing or speaking.


16. hauteur - Haughty manner or spirit; arrogance.

 
17. inhibit - To restrain, prohibit, or forbid.


18. jeremiad - A prolonged lamentation or complaint. 


19. opportunist - One who practices opportunism or likes to take many opportunities.


20. unconscionable - Not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.


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