Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Vocabulary: Pages 1-35-Alecia

1. Contemptuous: showing or expressing disdain; scornful. (Page 4)
2. Efflorescent: blossoming (Page 5)
3. Recluse: a person who lives in seclusion from the world; shut off (Page 6)
4. Inexactitude: the quality or state of being inexact or inaccurate (Page 10)
5. Commodious: spacious and convenient; roomy (Page 16)
6. Disconsolately: hopelessly unhappy, gloomy, cheerless (Page 18)
7. Amok: to run (Page 20)
8. Subterfuge: to escape a consequence, to hide (Page 21)
9. Furlough: a temporary layoff from work (Page 26)
10. Charlatan: a person who pretends to have more knowledge that he or she really possesses (Page 30)

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