Saturday, May 9, 2009

Vocab. 5 W.N. 19

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Not very many words this week, but give them a look over anyway :)

* Lithe - bending readily; pliant; limber
* Gainsay - to deny, dispute, or contradict
* Indissoluble - incapable of being dissolved; firm; perpetually binding or obligatory
* Accouchement - confinement of childbirth; lying-in
* Palliation - to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate
* Dupe - person who is easily deceived or fooled; to delude or trick
* Inveigh - to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words; rail
* Retrenchment - a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses
* Subterfuge - an expedient used to evade a rule, escape consequence, hide something, etc.


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