Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Vocab Spring list #1

Adumbrate-report or represent in outline

Apotheosis-the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

Ascetic-characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of 
indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

Bauble-a small, showy trinket or decoration.

Beguile-charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.

Burgeon-begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.

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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