Sunday, November 05, 2006

Vocabulary - November 6, 2006

1. Polemic - The art or practice of disputation
2. Temerity - Audacity
3. Peripatetic - Itinerant or a follower of Aristotle
4. Diatribe - A long harangue of a speech
5. Spurious - Being different than what it claims to be.
6. Annealing - A process of heating and cooling to strengthen an alloy.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Vocabulary November 2nd, 2006

1. Talisman – Amulet

2. Didactic – Excessly informative

3. Ashram – A retreat to practice Hinduism

4. Efficacy – Effectiveness

5. Luminous – Glowing

6. Iterative – Repeated routine

7. Sanguine – Confident, optimistic

8, Veracity – Truthfulness

9. Vortex – Whirlpool

10. Verisimilitude – Appearance of truth


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