Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Spring Vocab 5

Brouhaha - Excited Public Interest 
  Many people say they want to leave Santa Maria but I think the people that do stay, stay because of the environment and they share a brouhaha with the people around here 

Cloy - To become uninteresting
  Many things in life are fun at the beginning and we get addicted then it begins to cloy not much later 

Demeanor - Conduct or Behavior
  The rapist got arrested for bad demeanor

Deference - Respectful or Courteous
  Adults expect kids to be deference to them 

Enigmatic - Resembling an enigma
  Sometimes I get an enigmatic feeling in my chest 

Definitive - Most reliable, or defining
  Some questions or words have more than one definitive answer

Bumptious - Offensively self assertive 
  I am beginning to be bumptious with myself because if not i tend to kick back and not do what needs to be done 

Choleric - Extremely irritable
  Sometimes you can tell when someone is very choleric 

Bulwark - A person or thing giving strong support 
  My Abuelito and Abuelita ( Grandpa and Grandma) are the definition of a bulwark to me

Curtail - To cut short 
  Even though some projects are given way in advance some people curtail the project just to get done fast 

Adamant - Utterly unyielding in attitude 
  It isn't good when someone is very adamant so you have no clue what they are thinking or feeling

Profligate - Shamelessly immoral 
  Some people are very profligate in movies like when a car will drive by and they will flash their body parts 

Mawkish - Mildly sickening flavor 
  I love milk but i hate the mawkish after taste 

Thwart - To oppose successfully or prevent 
  I have helped thwart things from happening before

Onus - A  difficult or disagreeable obligation
  When someone has done something for me i have felt obligated to repay them the favor but that favor is sometimes onus

Requisite - Required or necessary for a particular purpose 
  Sometimes a pretest seems dumb but it is requisite 

Mollify - To soften in feeling or temper 
  People who are Bipolar can be very angry one minute and mollify the next 

Sartorial - Pertaining to tailors and their trade 
  Sartorial can do with sewing 

Presentiment - A feeling or impression that something is about to happen 
  In horror films the music often gives off presentiment

Impromptu - Made or done without previous preparation
  People often skip the directions and are very impromtu

Forbearance - To prohibit
  It's forbearance to abuse animals 

Remit - To transmit or send
  I when to the post office to remit my letter 

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