Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Welcome to my world...

chary: adj. cautious; wary.
cogent: adj. convincing.
desiccate: v. dry up; to make dry, dull, or lifeless.
dissolution: n. disintegration; looseness in morals.
extrapolation: n. projection; conjecture.
exingency: n. urgent situation.
flag: v. droop; grow feeble.
fatuous: adj. foolish, inane.
felicitous: adj. suitably expressed; well chosen.
flout: v. reject; mock.
foment: v. stir up; instigate.
gainsay: v. deny.
garrulous: adj. loquacious; wordy.
goad: v. urge on.
gouge: v. overcharge
guileless: adj. without deceit.
iconoclastic: adj. attacking cherished traditions.
inchoate: adj. recently begun; rudimentary.
indigence: n. poverty.
ingenuous: adj. naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated.
insipid: adj. lacking in flavor; dull.
insensible: adj. unconscious; unresponsive.
insularity: n. narrow-mindedness; isolation.
intransigence: n. refusal of any compromise; stubborness.
inured: adj. accustomed; hardened.
invective: n. abuse.
laconic: adj. brief and to the point.
lassitude: n. weariness.
levity: n. lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity.
magnanimity: n. genorosity.
malingerer: n. one who feigns illness to escape duty.
maverick: n. rebel.
mendacious: adj. lying; habitually dishonest.
mollify: v. soothe.
obliquity: n. deviation from a vertical or horizontal line, plane, position, or direction.
parsimonious: adj. stinginess; excessive frugality.
obdurate: adj. stubborn
quixotic: adj. idealistic without regard to practicality.

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