Tuesday, January 10, 2012

New Vocab

Histrionic - (adj.) Melodramatic, theatrical, exuberantly overplayed.

Contrite - (adj.) Feeling guilty, remorseful.

Obituary - (n.) A notice of a dead person printed in a widely-read document, celebrating the achievements of the person's life.

Aggravate - (v.) To make more serious, to anger.

Contagion - (n.) A disease, or part of a disease that is likely to spread

Brazen - (adj.) Bold and without shame.

Hedonism - (n.) the lifestyle of pursuing pleasure, slightly arrogant, out for one's own gain in pleasure.

Surreptitious - (adj.) Secretive, against the way of society, yet kept out of sight.

Foreordain - (v.) Appointed by God to do something.

Fraudulent - (adj.) Involved with cheating, scams, dishonest ways.

Gastronomy - (n.) The practice of eating/cooking/preparing yummy food! :D

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