Tuesday, January 10, 2012

words

Histrionic - ADJ - over-acting - The histrionic play was very bad


Contrite - ADJ - caused by or showing sincere remorse - The criminal was not the least bit contrite about the crime he committed of stabbing the old lady in the face.


Obituary - N - a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographicalsketch, as in a newspaper - The obituary in the local paper was for my friends' grandma


Aggravate - V - to annoy; irritate; exasperate - Polly was starting to aggravate me by putting me in all of her sentences.


Contagion - N - the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact - 


Brazen - ADJ - shameless or impudent - 


Hedonism - N - devotion to pleasure as a way of life - 


Surreptitious - ADJ - obtained, done, made - 


Foreordain - V - to ordain or appoint beforehand - 


Fraudulent - ADJ - characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud,  asactions, enterprise, methods, or gains - 


Gastronomy - N - the art or science of good eating - 

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