Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Vocabulary Lesson 6

1. heretic - n - someone who goes against a church
2. laudable - adj. - praiseworthy
3. propensity - n - tendency, inclination
4. indefatigable - adj. - tireless
5. impartial - adj - unbiased, fair
6. pragmatic - adj - practical
7. peruse - v - to study, to look over carefully
8. overt - adj. - obvious
9. mitigate - v - to make less intense, to relieve
10. irrelevant - adj - not related, not important

Honors only:

11. dawdle - v - to linger, to go slowly
12. doddering - adj - shaky
13. glutinous - adj. - sticky
14. malediction - n - a curse
15. pundit - n - a learned person

Extra Credit:
joypop - v
poshlust - n
upsilamba - n

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hehe. this is pretty cool that i can leave you comment!

hiiii mrs. wallace!

i like this for if i miss school (which i have)

-rosie bick