VOCAB: Spring 1

1)Adumbrate (v) -to produce a image or resemblance of; outline or sketch
I sat nervously on the bus as I felt the stranger in the seat across from mine continue to adumbrate me in his notebook as he had been doing for the past fifteen minutes.
2)Apotheosis (n) -the elevation of a person to the rank of a god
The apotheosis expressed in the classroom by the teacher to that particular student forced the rest of the classroom to feel as though it was unfair.
3)Ascetic (n)- a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practice extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons
I cannot imagine how terrible it must be to engage in an ascetic lifestyle.
4)Bauble (n) - a showy usually cheap ornament
My uncle felt the need to deny me access into the kitchen until I retrieved each and every single bauble that my baby brother had savagely thrown all over the living room.
5)Beguile (v) -to influence by trickery, flattery; mislead, delude
It is safe to say that many beguile in the business world if necessary to reach their final desire.
6)Burgeon (v) -to grow or develop quickly; to flourish
Europe was amongst the first continents to take the burgeon pride in the history of social evolution.
7)Complement (n) -something that completes or makes perfect
The complement to oreos would be milk.
8)Contumacious (adj) -stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient
Many of the young adults that find themselves in juvenile prison have possibly suffered from contumacious activity and should be receiving the most attention.
9)Curmudgeon (n) -a bad tempered cantankerous person
I constantly have to listen to stories about the curmudgeon reputation I had as a child and the many stories that followed it.
10)Didactic (adj) -intended for instruction; designed to teach
If Hitler would have had a more didactic style or attracting his target rather than appealing to emotions as he had, he may not have been able to brainwash as many people as he managed to.