Monday, February 4, 2013

SPRING VOCAB #2

PRAETORIAN- forming or resembling the Roman Imperial bodyguard
SIEVE- a person who can't keep a secret
VEILED- having or wearing a veil or a conceiling cover
SACCHARINE- relating to or resembling that of sugar
HARLEQUIN- a character in comedy with a shaved head, masked face, tights and wooden sword.
TOIL- long strenuous fatiguing labor
DELINQUENTS- guilty of a misdeed or offense 
GIBBER- to speak meaninglessly
INSIDIOUS- intended to entrap or beguile
STREWN- to scatter or sprinkle.
PATRONAGE- the act of buying something
CADENCE- pace
SUFFUSED- to spread through or over
CENTRIFUGE- a machine that separates substances by spinning fast
DENTIFRICE- toothpaste
LEISURE- time free of work or duty
VESSEL- a craft for traveling on water
PHONOGRAPH- record player
PROFUSION- an abundance of something

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