Monday, March 28, 2011

Topic of the Day 3/28

Vocabulary

5 new words that I may have heard, but never fully understood.

  • Assiduous [as-sid-u-ous] -  diligent, constant in application or attention; persistent.
  • Capricious [cap-ri-cious] - implusive and unpredictable, characterized by subject to whim.
  • Esoteric [es-o-ter-ic] - abstuse, difficult to understand; confidential.
  • Ubiquitous [u-biq-ui-tous] - omnipresent; seeming to be everywhere all at once. 
  • Candor [can-dor] - the ability to make judgements free of discrimination; honesty and straightforwardness.
Words that are hard to spell
  • acquiesce [ac-qui-esce]
  • adjudicate [a-ju-di-cate]
  • amoeba [a-mee-ba]
  • buoyant [boy-ant]
  • colonel [ker-nel]
  • conscientious [con-sci-en-tious]
  • idiosyncrasy [id-io-sync-ra-sy]
  • naivete [nai-eve-te] 
  • omniscient [om-nisc-ient]
  • recognizance [re-cog-niz-ence] 
  • rendezvous [ron-de-vu]

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