Thursday, January 9, 2014

Spring Vocabulary #1

1. Adumbrate - to foreshadow vaguely, to suggest or disclose partially
2. Apotheosis - elevation to divine status, a "perfect" example
3. Ascetic - practicing self denial strictly, especially for religious, harshly simple
4. Bauble - trinket, a jester's scepter
5. Beguile - decieve by cunning means, to cause to pass pleasantly
6. Burgeon - expand rapidly and wildly, to put forth new growth, to burst into bloom
7. Complement - something that fills up, completes, or makes perfect
8. Contumacious - stubbornly perverse or rebellious, willfully and obstinately disobedient
9. Curmudgeon - bad tempered, difficult, cantankerous person
10. Didactic - intended to teach particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

SENTENCES: 
1. I adumbrate tha tour supply of oil reserves in a global scale will be diminished by the year 2045, and will add to the already global warming incident going on.
2. Jimmy has such an apotheosis personality to him that everyone, even the guys, surround him at lunchtime. 
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