Saturday, April 4, 2009

I can wait


I would hope that someone had brains...

Vocab list

Vocabulary Words

Camille Harrison

 

 

Aptitude: capability, ability

 

Chastisement: discipline

 

Consciousness: awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.

 

Ecstatic: joy or delight, rapturous

 

Euphemisms: The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive

 

Evoke: to call up or draw forth

 

Exasperated: to irritate or provoke

 

Hastily: brief; fleeting; rash

 

Infraction: breach; violation

 

Ominous: portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening

 

Pondered: To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care

 

Prominent: conspicuous; projecting; or well-known

 

Relinquish: to give up

 

Remorse: to regret

 

Scrupulously: having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right

 

Staggered: To move or stand unsteadily

 

Supplementary: additional

 

Suppress: to put an end to

 

Transgressions: A violation of a law, command, or duty

 

Utopia: an imaginary island; an ideal place or state; any visionary system of political or social perfection

 

Wheedle: to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts

 

Wry: contrary; bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing



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--Camille Harrison--