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Adumbrate: To report or represent in outline
o
Dr. Preston adumbrated the necessity of collaboration
in open source learning.
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Apotheosis : the highest point in the
development of something; culmination or climax
o
For many people graduation is the apotheosis of
his or her academic career but for him, it was just the beginning.
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Ascetic: characterized by or suggesting the
practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence
o
When cutting weight wrestlers have to be ascetic
avoiding food and drink as much as possible
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Bauble: a shiny trinket or emblem
o
The cluttered room was filled with baubles, mementos
of her vast travels.
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Beguile: to charm or enchant, sometimes in a
deceptive way
o
The crafty salesmen beguiled the tourists into
buying his useless baubles.
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Burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly;
flourish
o
His worldly knowledge burgeoned with his
extensive travels
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Complement: a thing that completes or brings to
perfection
o
Technology including twitter and blogger
complements open source learning.
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Contumacious: willingly disobedient to authority
o
A lot of freshmen think they can be contumacious
because they are in high school now.
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Curmudgeon: bad tempered person
o
Wrestlers become curmudgeons while cutting
weight screaming at everyone in sight
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Didactic: intended to teach with moral
instruction as a motive
o
Many novels are didactic, speaking on many
social injustices in our culture.
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Disingenuous: pretending to know as much about
something as one already does
o
The speeder tried to be disingenuous claiming
not to know what the speed limit was when he was pulled over.
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Exculpate: to prove someone’s innocence
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The autopsy exculpated the suspect, and he was
released from jail.
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Faux pas: an embarrassing act in a social
situation
o
When I was little someone called the teacher “mommy”
and it was quite the faux pas.
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Fulminate: to express protest
o
Many people in Ferguson Missouri are fulminating
against police brutality and the killing of Mike Brown.
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Fustian: pretentious speech or writing
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The teacher thought the student was only being
fustian on the first day, and wasn’t actually that smart.
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Hauteur: disdainful pride
o
In Pride
and Prejudice Darcy exemplifies hauteur, refusing to dance with Elizabeth because
of her social status
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Inhibit: hinder restrain or prevent
o
Though he wanted to help, all he did was inhibit
getting the job done quickly
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Jeremiad: a long mournful complaint
o
The day after the test the teacher had to listen
to all the students’ jeremiads about how difficult it was.
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Opportunist: a person who uses circumstances for
gain
o
Always the opportunist, Joey saw his chance to
participate in a project that would look good on a college application to a
college of engineering.
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Unconscionable: unreasonable
o
His request for $40 billion was unconscionable.
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