Saturday, April 4, 2009
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--