Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Vocabulary
Week 12
1. Affiliate – to bring into close association or connection, associated with personally or in business
2. Depraved – evil, sinful, debased, reprobate, degenerate; dissolute,
3. Coup – a highly successful stroke, action or plan
4. Bereft – deprived of or lacking something
5. Glut – to supply with more than is needed or than can be handled
6. Indict – to charge with a fault or offense, to charge with a crime by finding of a jury
7. Lithe – easily flexed or bent, athletically slim or graceful
8. Maniacal – affected with or suggestive of madness
9. Manifest – readily or easily perceived by the senses and esp by sight, easily understood
10. Muster – to gather or cause to gather, to call forth or rouse
11. Officiate – to perform a ceremony, function or duty, to act in an official manner
12. Piety – fidelity t o natural obligations (as to parents); dutifulness to religion
13. Plausible – seemingly worth of belief
14. Quip – a clever remark
15. Quittance – something given in return, compensation, or retaliation, discharge from a debt or an obligation
16. Acrimonious – biting or sarcastic in feeling, language or manner, upsetting in purpose
17. beatific– giving or showing great joy or bliss
18. Spite – ill will with a wish to annoy, anger, or frustrate; petty malice
19. Malice – ill will, spite, spitefulness; animosity
20. Tepid – moderately warm, lukewarm, lacking enthusiasm or conviction
21. Conviction – a fixed or firm belief, the act of convicting someone to imprisonment
22. Thriftless – careless, wasteful, unable to handle money or resources
23. Intractable - not easily controlled

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