Wednesday, February 20, 2013

spring vocabulary #2

1. Praetorian: Resembling the Roman guards.
2. Sieve: Utensil with a meshed surface for straining.
3. Veiled: Covered or in disguise.
4. Saccharine: Artificially sweet.
5. Harlequin: Character in a comic theater.
6. Toil: Hard and continuous work.
7. Delinquence: Neglectful; failing.
8. Jibbering: To move relatively sidewise or backward instead of forward.
9. Insidious: Intended to entrap or beguile.
10. Strewn: To let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface.
11. Patronage: Act of buying something.
12. Cadence: Pace
13. Suffused: To spread through or over
14. Centrifuge: Machine that separates substances by spinning fast.
15. Dentifrice: Toothpaste.
16. Leisure: Time free from work or duty.
17. Vessel: Large craft.
18. Phonograph: Record player.
19. Profusion: Abundance of

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