Vocabulary Week 1

Vocabulary Week 1Word 1: Ballistic Def: To become suddenly very angry or the flight of a bullet or missile through the air Sent: He just went crazy. She said the guy just went ballistic and starting firing off shots. Chuck O'Leary

Word 2: Brackish Def: A of mixture fresh and seawater that makes it slightly salty Sent: Pacific herring depend on a clean estuary with plenty of freshwater inflow to create productive brackish conditions. Zeke Grader

Word 3: Inadvertently Def: Doing without realizing, accidently Sent: We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded Elliot Eisner

Word 4: AmenableDef: Overly willing to obey others Sent: The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. Adolf Hitler

Word 5: HeedDef: To listen to someones adviceSent: Advice is least heeded when most needed. English Proverb

Word 6: EffronteryDef: Behavior that is rude and disrespectfulSent: The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. Samuel Johnson

Word 7: Impertinent Def: Disrespectful, not courteous Sent: All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome. Ben Jonson

Word 8: Duplicitous Def: Two-faced, behaving dishonestly in order to trick someone Sent: George W. Bush is a simple-minded but honest man who put too much faith in duplicitous advisors. Richard Cohen

Word 9: Imprudent Def: Lacking in good judgment, unwise, not prudent Sent: We're on an imprudent, unsustainable fiscal path, ... The status quo is not an optionDavid Walker

Word 10: Perilous Def: Full of peril or danger, hazardous Sent: Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous. Confucius

Word 11: Mirth Def: Laughter, gaiety, or merriment Sent: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare

Word 12: AbashedDef: To make ashamed or uneasySent: Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. John Milton

Word 13: Domicile Def: Place where you liveSent: I believe the Supreme Court has already ruled dormitories can be considered domiciles. Claire Ebel

Word 14: DrudgeryDef: Boring and unpleasant to doSent: To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill. Charles Caleb Colton

Word 15: Exonerate Def: To officially state that someone is not responsible for something that happened Sent: the overwhelming evidence that DNA testing is producing. We now are up to 69 individuals that have been exonerated.. Barry Scheck

Word Obdurate Def: Resistant to moral influence or persuasion Sent: We were ... not surprised but disappointed by the very stubborn and obdurate reaction we encountered in Belgrade. Wesley Clark

Word 17: ImperiousDef: Domineering and arrogant Sent: Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot. Thomas Carlyle

Word 18: Incessant Def: Continuing without stop Sent: There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. Henry David Thoreau

Word 19: Chagrin Def: Feeling of disappoint and embarrassment caused failure Sent: Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin Henry David Thoreau

Word 20: Impudent Def: Boldly disrespectful Sent:When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot. Marcus Aurelius Antonius