Romney Etch-a-Sketch Economist story Jordan's words 3.29.12

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  1. sexagenarian
    someone whose age is in the sixties
  2. discountenance
    look with disfavor on
  3. perambulate
    walk with no particular goal
  4. philately
    the collection and study of postage stamps
  5. catholic
    comprehensive or broad-minded in tastes and interests
  6. piscatorial
    relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing
  7. avowed
    openly declared as such
  8. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  9. rambling
    spreading out in different directions
  10. putative
    purported
    claims to be...(but the speaker/author has doubts)
  11. canonize
    treat as a sacred person
  12. expedient
    appropriate to a purpose
    not necessarily what one believes in -- often used derogatorily to indicate a person -- or a decision a person takes which is does not fit in his/her moral values, but which offers a gain of some sort -- politicians are often derided for being overly expedient.
  13. palimpsest
    a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
  14. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
    overly bold
  15. labile
    liable to change
    flexible
  16. varnish
    a coating that provides a hard, lustrous finish to a surface
    often metaphorical: embellish a story (to make oneself look better)
  17. insalubrious
    detrimental to health
Created on Thu Mar 29 19:51:50 EDT 2012 (updated Thu Mar 29 19:58:03 EDT 2012)

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