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Vocabulary Week 28 Gold

Vocabulary Week 28 Gold. Word 1: Jaunt Def : To make a usually short journey for pleasure Sent: It's kind of jarring to have to pop out after a jaunt in the woods and have to walk along a busy road . Ben Rose.

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Vocabulary Week 28 Gold

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  1. Vocabulary Week 28 Gold

  2. Word 1: JauntDef: To make a usually short journey for pleasureSent: It's kind of jarring to have to pop out after a jaunt in the woods and have to walk along a busy road.Ben Rose

  3. Word 2: FractiousDef: Tending to be troublesome : unrulySent: Congress has been polarized, is fractious, as the president and others have observed.Richard Lugar

  4. Word 3:TawdryDef: Showy but cheap and of poor qualitySent However, what they have been building the last 30 years is the standard, tawdry strip developments. The government's vision is to start again and do it right.Andres Duany

  5. Word 4:EgregiousDef:Outstandingly bad; outrageous, flagrant, offensiveSent: Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.Alfred Austin

  6. Word 5: LummoxDef: A clumsy, stupid personSent: That great, overgrown lummox of a Colonel McCormick, mediocre in ability, less than average in brains and a damn physical coward in spite of his size.Harold L. Ickes

  7. Word 6: ArcaneDef: Understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscureSent: True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down.Isaac Asimov

  8. Word 7: EvocativeDef: Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mindSent: The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.  ~ThalassaCruso

  9. Word 8: Tenuous Def: Lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated or having little substance or strength Sent: The overriding factor is what the global economic situation is -- and it is tenuous at best.Michael Boss

  10. Word 9:Didactic Def: Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instructionSent: I try to make people think about the limitations of technology in a way that isn't obvious or didactic. Ken Goldberg

  11. Word 10:DegradingDef: An experience that makes someone feel ashamedSent: The whole commerce between master and slave is …the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Thomas Jefferson

  12. Word 11: MegalomaniaDef: Mental illness when one thinks they are powerful and important when one really isn’tSent: If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.Margaret Atwood

  13. Word 12: NonentityDef: An unimportant person or thingSent: What am I in the eyes of most people--a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person--somebody who has no position in society and will never have. Vincent van Gogh

  14. Pre-WWII Stalinist Russia Allegory Christian Allegory Word 13: Allegory Def: Is when a book represents as a whole a specific moral, political idea or historical event Sent: It's very unusual. It's an allegory, basically. There are a lot of layers of meaning. It's a story about living and being a human being.  Brian White

  15. Word 14: ApparitionDef:Asupernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith Sent: When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted…Logan Pearsall Smith

  16. Word 15: CausticDef: 1 Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue 2. Severely critical or sarcasticSent: If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.Barbara Walters

  17. Word 16: Derision / Derisive Def: Expressing contempt or ridiculeSent: No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derisionthat sometimes befalls lawyers.Irving R. Kaufman

  18. Word 17: EdificeDef: A building, especially one of imposing appearanceSent: Theyhave spent their lives working to erect the stature and posture of the U.S. as a leader in the world ... and we simply see that edificecrumbling.Phyllis Oakley

  19. Word 18:OrificeDef: A hole, especially in the body like your mouthSent: "Apparently, being human involves more than just two arms, two legs and the occasional major orifice.

  20. Word 19: Erroneous Def: Characterized by error : mistaken Sent: A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. Thomas Hobbes

  21. Word 20: InsidiousDef:Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effectsSent: The television, that insidiousbeast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly… Ray Bradbury

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