Sunday, April 10, 2011

Week 38 Words

1. Audacity (n) – daring, boldness
2. Capitulate (v) – make terms, surrender
3. Chicanery (n) – trickery, underhandedness
4. Docile (adj) – easy to manage, passive
5. Facet (n) – one side of a person or situation
6. Fatal (adj) – disastrous, deadly
7. Foist (v) – pass as genuine, pass off slyly
8. Glib (adj) – smooth of speech, slick, persuasive
9. Homogeneous (adj) – uniform, same
10. Legerdemain (n) - sleight of hand, deceptive adroitness
11. Malleable (adj) – capable of being formed or shaped
12. Passé (adj) – old fashioned, obsolete
13. Procrastinate (v) – to put off, delay
14. Reticent (adj) – reserved, silent, uncommunicative
15. Retort (v) – to reply, answer
16. Stagnant (adj) – inactive, dull, motionless
17. Stigmatize (v) – to mark with a disgrace
18. Tacit (adj) – understood, implied, not stated
19. Tantalize (v) – to tease/torment by offering good w/o coming through
20. Trend (n) – general direction, inclination, fashion

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