Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Vocab 4 - F. 451

Pedantry- n - person who is excessively concerned with minor details & rules or with displaying academic learning.
The honor student was a pedantry.
Odious - adj - extremely unpleasant; repulsive.
The odious smell wafting from the room made me gag.
Luxuriant - adj - rich and profuse in growth; lush
Luxuriant fur is a great turn on in the animal kingdom.
Dictum - n - a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source
Every dictum from the your parents is important. Sometimes. 
Cacophony - n - a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
The stinking pit of filth known as a the local pub was a cacophony of odd sounds and animalistic gunts.
Proclivity - n - a tendency to choose or do something regularly
AJ's proclivity to dress like a slob was not very attractive, and did nothing to woo the females.
Proboscis - n - the nose of a mammal, esp. when it is long and mobile,
Stratum - n -  a layer or a series of layers of rock in the
Mausoleum - n - a building holding tomb/s, usually large & grand
The great general is held in the war hero mausoleum forever.
Marionette - n - a puppet worked from above by strings attached to its limbs
The possessed marionette puppet vigorously attacked the masses with godawful voices.
Phoenix - n - a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the  desert, after this time burning itself & rising from the ashes with renewed youth
The phoenix was very livelyafter being reborn from ashes for the, 4,023,789,293,100,000,113th time.

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