Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Spring Vocabulary #2

Toil: hard working
Saccharine: excessively sweet or sentimental.
Gibbering: speaking rapidly or speaking gibberish.
Delinquents: neglectful or failing.
Insidious: intended to in-trap someone or something.
Strewn: to scatter or spread out.
Harlequin: conventional comedian.
Praetorian: resembling a roman guard.
Sieve: a utensil consisting of a mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids.
Veiled: in disguise.
Patronage: the act of buying something.
Kadence: the pace of something(metronome, a steady beat).
Profusions: an abundance or large quantity of something.
Vessel: a ship or large boat.
Sufussed: gradually spread through or over.
Centrifuge: a machine with a rapid spinning container.
Dentifrice: a paste or powder for cleaning the teeth(toothpaste).
Leisure: free time.
Phonograph: a record player.

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