Monday, September 15, 2014

Vocabulary #4

obsequious
beatitude
bete noire
bode
dank
ecumenical
fervid
fetid
gargantuan
heyday
incubus
infrastructure
inveigle
kudos
lagniappe
prolix
protege
prototype
sycophant
tautology
truckle

Declaration of Learning Independence

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Vocabulary #3

  1. ACCOLADE(noun): any award, honor, or laudatory notice.
  2. ACERBITY(noun): sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
  3. ATTRITION(noun): a reduction or decrease in numbers, size or strength.
  4. BROMIDE(noun): a person who's is platitudinous(flat, dull) and boring; a platitudinous or trite saying.
  5. CHAUVINIST(noun): a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory; a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a male chauvinist or a female chauvinist.
  6. CHRONIC(adj.): constan; habitual; inveterate; continuing a long time or reoccurring frequently.
  7. EXPOUND(verb): to set forth or state in detail; to explain, interpret.
  8. FACTIONALISM(noun): the state or quality of being partisan or self-interested.
  9. IMMACULATE(adj.): free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean; free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled.
  10. IMPRECATION(noun): a curse; malediction(utterance of a curse).
  11. INELUCTABLE(adj.): incapable of being evaded; inescapable.
  12. MERCURIAL(adj.): changeable; volatile(evaporating rapidly); fickle(likely to change); flighty; erratic(having no certain or definite course); quick-witted.
  13. PALLIATE(verb): to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate; to try to conceal the gravity of an offense by excuses, apologies, etc..
  14. PROTOCOL(noun): the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence and etiquette; an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, especially a treaty, is prepared.
  15. RESPLENDENT(adj.): shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid.
  16. STIGMATIZE(verb): to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon.
  17. SUB ROSA(noun): confidentially; secretly; privately.
  18. VAINGLORY(noun):excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc..; boastful vanity; empty pomp(stately display) or show.
  19. VESTIGE(noun): a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence; a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc..
  20. VOLITION(noun): the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing; a choice or decision made by the will.

My Blog 2.0

The internet is a wonderful yet horrible thing. I figured that since all my blog posts were saved to my blog they would be there until I deleted them. Apparently not. Blogger decided that for whatever reason it would remove my blog and take all of my hard work with it. So here I am making a new blog and starting from scratch.

And this is all that remains from my blog: