Friday, April 4, 2008

weekly vocabulary...march 21, 29, april 4

1. Word / Phrase: picklock
Meaning:a person who picks locks, esp. a burglar.
Context: dictionary .com

2. Word / Phrase:pilfer
Meaning:to steal, esp. in small quantities
Context:dictionary

3. Word / Phrase: pitiful
Meaning:evoking or deserving pity
Context:dictionary

4. Word / Phrase: quiescent
Meaning:being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless
Context:dictionary

5. Word / Phrase: rouleau
Meaning:a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.
Context:dictionary

1. Word / Phrase: tableau
Meaning:a picture, as of a scene.
Context:dictionary

2. Word / Phrase:markdown
Meaning:a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
Context:dictionary

3. Word / Phrase: junta
Meaning:a council.
Context:dictionary

4. Word / Phrase: guimpe
Meaning:a chemisette or yoke of lace, embroidery, or other material, worn with a dress cut low at the neck.
Context:dictionary

5. Word / Phrase: sangria
Meaning:an iced drink, typically made with red wine, sugar, fruit juice, soda water, and spices, and containing fruit slices.
Context:dictionary

1. Word / Phrase: sap
Meaning:Metallurgy. soft metal at the core of a bar of blister steel.
Context:dictionary

2. Word / Phrase: lewd
Meaning:Obsolete.
Context:dictionary.

3. Word / Phrase: Listless

Meaning: Lazy; without energy

Context: dictionary.

4. Word / Phrase: Flustared

Meaning: it when a person is confuse

Context: dictionary.

5. Word / Phrase: Vacant

Meaning: Is when something is Open, empty or blank

Context:dictionary.

1 comments:

Mr. Andrew said...

Jeferson, I am disappointed. I know you have the time and space to work on your blog, yet you are currently going to receive a failing grade for having it be so incomplete.

And your template is grossly inappropriate for this blog. Change it immediately!!

And get to work and finish the assignments.! -AS-