VOCABULARY 14

And now that you've thoroughly enjoyed my cartoon (HA HA HA!), here are the words:

RECLUSE-n- a person who lives alone and away from others

FARRAGO -n- a careless or confused mixture, a hodge-podge

VERNACULAR -n- standard, everyday language; common, idiomatic

UNGUENT -n- ointment; salve for wounds

SUCCINT -adj- concise, clearly said in a few words

TACITURN-adj- habitually untalkative, uncommunicative

TOUT-v- to promote or praise energetically

UNIMPEACHABLE-adj- beyond doubt, beyond reproach

VIABLE-adj- able to live or exist

WANTON-adj- immoral; deliberately cruel and malicious



additional 5 for honors classes:

PRATTLE -v- babble, chatter

METTLE -n- courage, spirit

GREGARIOUS -adj- sociable

ENMITY -n- ill-will, hatred

VEXATIOUS -adj- full of annoyance or distress; harassed, intended to vex or annoy


AND NOW...........THE EXTRA CREDIT WORDS!!!!

VERMICULATE-V- TO DECORATE WITH WAVY OR WINDING LINES or ADJ- WORM-LIKE, TWISTING, INFECTED WITH WORMS (EWWW!)

MISPRIZE-V- TO DESPISE; TO UNDERVALUE

HEMIALGIA-N- PAIN AFFECTING ONE HALF OF THE BODY

HELMINTHOLOGY-N- THE STUDY OF WORMS (EWWW AGAIN!)