Thursday, October 25, 2012

vocabulary fall list # 8

flout: to treat with distane
caveat: special exception
blazon: to adorn - decorate something
filch: steal something casually
fractious: bad tempered - irritable
equitable: fair
autonomy: independence/freedom
addendum: add
amnesty: official pardon for people who have been evicted
axiomatic: self evident
extricate: free of a constrain
soporific: causing or tending to cause sleep
scathing: scornful, severely critical
unwieldy: heavy to lift - awkward
vapid: dull - boring
prognosticate: foretell
sepulchral: gloomy- dismissal
salutary: producing good effects - with reference to something
strait laced: really strict
scourge: to whip or lash
precept: rule used to regulate
transient: something that lasts a short amount of time - homeless person

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