Monday, August 26, 2013

Vocabulary Words List 1

Colloquial – informal, adjective
Dotard – a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; noun

Furrow – a narrow groove made in the ground; noun
Misnomer – an error in naming a person or thing; noun
Vilification – to speak ill of; noun
Atrophy – a wasting away of something; noun
Misogynist – a person who hates women; noun
Vindicate – to uphold or justify something; verb
Attenuate – to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value; verb
Drivel – childish, sill, or meaningless talk or thinking, noun
Virulent – actively poisonous, adjective

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