Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Vocabulary Words for May, 2008

Words on my "New Vocabulary Words" List:
tacit -
pejorative -
efficacy -
peripatetic -
onereous -
abrogate -
extraneous -
pedantic -
specious -
prevaricate -
incredulos -
copious -
capricious -

Definitions: Can you match the word up with the definition?
a. Too concerned with formal rules and details.
b. Difficult: representing a great burden or much trouble
c. Apparently true but really false; deceptively attractive
d. Implied but not expressed: understood or implied without being stated
e. Having an abundance or plenty; plenty in number
f. Tending to make or become worse; disparaging or belittling
g. Unwilling to believe; unable or unwilling to believe something or completely unconvinced by it
h. Effectiveness; the ability to produce the desire result
i. Do away with something: to tend an agreement or contract formally
j. Going from place to place; working in several place and traveling between them
k. Not relevant or applicable: not essential or important
l. Give to sudden changes: tending to make sudden unexpected changes
m. Get out of telling truth: to avoid giving a direct and honest answer or opinion, or a clear and truthful account of a situation.

Answers: 1-d, 2-f, 3-h, 4-j, 5-b, 6-i, 7-k, 8-a, 9-c, 10-m, 11-g, 12-e, 13-l

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