Monday, March 3, 2008

Vocabulary, Week 8

(I figured it was my turn to post them)

1. vaunt – to speak boastfully; brag.

2. obsequious – compliant, obedient, and dutiful

3. truculent - fierce; cruel; savagely brutal; aggressively hostile

4. beguile - to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude

5. enervate - to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken

6. idiosyncratic – having a characteristic or habit that is peculiar to an individual

7. exonerate - to clear or relieve, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate

8. alacrity - cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness

9. canonical - reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

10. evocative – having the ability to draw forth or bring out something latent, hidden, or unexpressed

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

thank you ash!...my turn is creeping up on me slowly i can feel it haha