Sunday, February 3, 2008

Vocab Week 3

  1. Disseminate (v)- to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse.
  2. Eloquence (n)- the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness.
  3. Austere (adj)- severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding.
  4. Baleful (adj)- full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious.
  5. Bigot (n)- a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
  6. Relapse (n) and (v)- to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.
  7. Repudiate (v)- to reject as having no authority or binding force
  8. Resilience (n)- the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
  9. Sanguine (adj)- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident.
  10. Renovate (v)- to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.

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