Monday, September 17, 2012

Vocabulary #5

allude: Suggest or call attention to indirectly.
clairvoyant: A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.
conclusive: Serving to prove a case.
disreputable: Not considered to be respectable in character or appearance.
endemic: Regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
exemplary: Serving as a desirable model.
fathom: Understand.
guile: Sly or cunning intelligence.
integrity: The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
itinerary: A planned route or journey.
misconstrue: Interpret
obnoxious: Extremely unpleasant.
placate: Make someone less angry or hostile.
placid: Not easily upset or excited
plagiarism: The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
potent: Having great power, influence, or effect.
pretext: A reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.
protrude: stick out
stark: stiff
superficial: to think highly.

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