the ever expanding vocab

Nov 24, 2008 22:01

words Ashleigh learned today:

Egregious - remarkably bad; outrageous ; flagrant / remarkable, extraordinary

Prescient - knowing beforehand, foreseeing

Parochial - of or in a parish / narrow, limited

Supine - lying on back with face upward; morally or mentally inactive or passive;

Pederast / Pederasty - practice of homosexual relations between a man and a boy

Charivari - a mock serenade accompanied by much noise and revelry, often played as a joke on newly married couples.

Promulgate - proclaim formally; announce officially ; spread far and wide
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