Thursday, September 27, 2012

Vocab list 1

Adumbrate: To Report or represent an outline; Indicate faintly; Foreshadow or symbolize; Overshadow

Apotheosis: The highest point of something, Climax

Ascetic: Characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence.

Bauble: A small, showy trinket or decoration. Something of no importance or worth

Beguile: Charm or Enchant. Trick

Burgeon: To grow or increase rapidly

Complement: A thing that completes or brings to perfection

Contumacious: Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority

Curmudgeon: A bad-tempered or surly person

Didactic: Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

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