Tuesday, November 4, 2014

NEW VOCABULARY

Pedantry - noun; slavish attention to rules, details, etc

Odiousadjective; deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable


Luxuriantadjective; richly abundant, profuse, or superabundant


Dictum - noun; an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion


Cacophony - noun; a harsh, discordant mixture of sound


Proclivity - noun; a tendency to choose or do something regularly


Proboscis - noun; the nose of a mammal


Stratum - noun; a level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education, or income


Mausoleum - noun; a building; a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs


Marionette - noun; a puppet worked from above by strings attached to its limbs.


Phoenix - noun; a mythical creature; a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle

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