Thursday, October 25, 2012

Vocabulary List Week #8

1. Flout - Willfully disregarding a rule.

2. Caveat - Exception to the rule, but adding change to it.

3. Blazon - To decorate

4. Filch - Stealing something of little value

5. Fractious - bad tempered

6. Equitable - Fair and just

7. Autonomy - Independence; Freedom

8. Addendum - A thing to be added

9. Amnesty - Official pardon

10. Axiomatic - Self evident

11. Extricate - To free from difficulty

12. Soporific - Causing sleep

13. Scathing - Severly scornful

14. Unwieldy - Hard to move or carry

15. Vapid - Flat, tasteless, boring

16. Prognosticate - Foretell a prophesy

17. Sepulchral - Gloomy

18. Salutary - Producing good affects

19. Straitlaced - strict rule, following

20. Scourge - Whip or Lash

21. Precept - General rule to behavior

22. Transient - Last for a short time; or homeless man

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