Vocabulary
Week 13
1. boon – something that promotes well being, a benefit or blessing
2. cadence – the measure or beat of a rhythmical flow
3. cantankerous – marked by ill humor, irritability, and determination to disagree
4. deliberate – to consider carefully, determine after careful thought
5. denote – to mark out plainly, to indicate or to make known
6. discord – lack of agreement or harmony, dissension
7. discourse – a verbal interchange of ideas, conversation or expression of thought
8. efface – to obliterate or obscure by or as if by rubbing out
9. embargo – a ban or prohibition of commerce or goods
10. emphatic – said with emphasis, or attracting special attention
11. garish – clothed in vivid colors, glitzy, flamboyant
12. irreverent – lacking proper respect or seriousness
13. malady – a disease or disorder of body or mind
14. mason – a skilled worker who builds with stone, brick, or concrete
15. mollify – to calm down, sooth in temper, appease, reduce in intensity
16. motif – a dominant idea or central theme (as in a work of art)
17. novice– one who is new or inexperienced or untrained
18. paragon – a model of perfection
19. permeate – to spread or diffuse about
20. rectify – to correct or make right
21. reproach – an expression of disproval, a cause or occasion of blame or disgrace
22. serene – calm, free and clear of trouble, storms or unpleasant change
23. vacuous - empty, blank, marked by an absence or lack of ideas or intelligence