Monday, March 2, 2009

Vocabulary 30-45

Deadpan- marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment; impassive or expressionless: deadpan humor.
Brandishing- To wave or flourish (a weapon, for example) menacingly
Dogmatism- dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
Ravenous- extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
Tumultuous- full of tumult or riotousness; marked by disturbance and uproar: a tumultuous celebration.
Fastidious- excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
Countenance- a look or expression of the face
Staunch- firm to your principles
Opiates- Any of various sedative narcotics containing opium or one or more of its natural or synthetic derivatives
Endorphins- in brain. Reduce the sensation of pain and effect emotions
Gyrating- to move in a circle or spiral, or around a fixed point; whirl.
Abated- to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish
Fickle- likely to change, esp. due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
Spontaneity- the state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous.
Contrived- to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent
Mennonites- A member of an Anabaptist church characterized particularly by simplicity of life, pacifism, and nonresistance.
Aggregation- a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons
Predilection- tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
Impetus- a moving force or impulse
Concession- the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument: He made no concession to caution.

Misconstrue- to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.

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