Week 5 Word List

Anonymous
The words I picked this week from Beautiful Boy I really liked the sound of them, some I heard before but didn't know the meaning, others were new to my vocabulary.
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  1. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  2. assiduousness
    great and constant diligence and attention
  3. bucolic
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  4. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward
  5. chronicler
    someone who records past events in the order that they occurred
  6. confounded
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
  7. contrived
    showing effects of planning or manipulation
  8. countervail
    oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
  9. despondence
    feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
  10. disembodied
    not having a material form
  11. dissipation
    breaking up and scattering by dispersion
  12. exude
    release in drops or small quantities
  13. furtive
    secret and sly
  14. gouache
    an opaque watercolor prepared with gum
  15. impish
    naughtily or annoyingly playful
  16. inconsequential
    lacking worth or importance
  17. inept
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  18. inextricably
    in a manner incapable of being disentangled or untied
  19. integral
    existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
  20. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  21. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  22. malleable
    capable of being shaped or bent
  23. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  24. ratty
    of or characteristic of rats
  25. regale
    occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  26. scion
    a descendent or heir
  27. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  28. underpin
    confirm or support with evidence or authority
Created on Wed Sep 21 20:33:24 EDT 2011 (updated Wed Sep 21 22:55:43 EDT 2011)

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