Vocabulary Week 1

Vocabulary Week 29 GoldWord 1: Connotation Def: The meaning of how a word is used in a sentence, literal meaning Sent: In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.William Orville Douglas

Word 2: Provident Def: Providing and saving for future needs or events Sent: Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.Louise Bogan

Word 3: Discretion Def: Means both the ability to make wise choices or decisions, and the freedom to make one's own judgments. Sent: The better part of valour is discretion.William Shakespeare

Word 4: Harrowing Def: Extremely disturbing or distressing Sent: Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-.Melvin Maddocks

Word 5: ImplacableDef: Not capable of being appeased or pacified Sent: The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.Thomas Fuller

Word 6: BequeathDef: To give or leave by will after your death Sent: Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.Charles Caleb Colton

Word 7: Farcical Def: Absurd and ludicrous Sent: The government of India has organized such farcical elections in the past as well. These so-called elections have invariably been rigged Pervez Musharraf

Word 8: Exacerbate Def: To make worseSent: We further urge those in the region to exercise restraint and avoid actions that could exacerbate this or any similar situation.Sean McCormack

Word 9: GarrulousDef: Talkative and chattySent: Old men are garrulous by nature.Marcus Tullius Cicero

Word 10: Adulation Def: Excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery Sent: The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.Oliver Goldsmith

Word 11: AffableDef: Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to Sent: He's such a sweet guy and such a great guy to be around. He's always been so affable and pleasant. Malcolm White

Word 12: Virulent Def: Marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course, Extremely infectious, or poisonous Sent: We do not know yet whether this (bird flu in Turkey) is the same virulent virus that has caused such widespread destruction in Asia.M. Kyprianou

Word 13: Paranormal Def: Cannot be explained by science, mysterious Sent: This kind of show is popular because almost everyone has had a paranormal experience or knows of someone who has. Grant Wilson

Word 14: Ignominious Def: Humiliating, disgracing, usually because of being unsuccessful Sent: I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter came to such an ignominious end.Larry Merchant

Word 15: Platitude Def: A clich remark or saying that is uninspiring Sent: Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.Colin Powell

Word 16: Acrid Def: Having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell, or angry and bitter Sent: As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

Word 17: Anachronism Def: Something that belongs to another time period, not from that era of time Sent: I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.Frank Lloyd Wright

Word 18: Feral Def: Wild or savage, not tameSent: This is not feral hog eradication. We will be using legal means to reduce the population so we can reduce damage. Billy Higginbotham

Word 19: FluctuateDef: To rise and fall irregularly Sent: I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators.Pablo Picasso

Word 20: Vacillate Def: To keep changing your mind about somethingSent: Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. Ethiopia.African Proverb