Monday, April 16, 2007
Words - 16 April
Hi,
Sorry I couldn’t publish the list yesterday.
As compensation I have come up with 20 words today.
I will compensate with 20 words for another 2 days.
So here is todays list
1) Cavort - To bound
1. To bound or prance about.2. To have lively or boisterous fun; to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner.
The men spent the next few weeks there drinking beer, eating hibachi-grilled fish, and cavorting with the young ladies.
Cavort is perhaps an alteration of curvet, "a light leap by a horse"
2) Arrant - In the highest degree
1. Downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious: an arrant fool.
2. Wandering; errant.
3) Ascetic - Practicing self denial
4) Ascribe - consider to be the origin of or belonging to
To remember: Ascribe: Source; Subscribe: To join the ascribe / source
1. To credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
2. To attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic: They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic.
5) Asperity - roughness harshness
Ill temper irritability
To remember: Prosperity comes when you are humble and Asperity comes when you are ill mannered or harsh
1. Harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony: The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity.
2. Hardship; difficulty; rigor: the asperities of polar weather.
3. Roughness of surface; unevenness.
4. Something rough or harsh
6) Assiduous - Diligent , Hardworking
Industrious, Tireless
1. Constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
2. Constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive: an assiduous student.
7) Astute - Clever, quick at seeing to get an advantage
To remember: Always + Tuned to the surrounding environment.
1. Of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
2. Clever; cunning; ingenious; shrewd: an astute merchandising program; an astute manipulation of facts.
8) Attenuate - Make thin. weaken enervate
1. To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
2. To make thin; make slender or fine.
9) Audacious - daring foolishly bold impudent
1. Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
2. Extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive: an audacious vision of the city's bright future.
3. Recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
4. Lively; unrestrained; uninhibited: an audacious interpretation of her role.
10) Augury - Omen, sign
11) Austere - Severely moral, strict, simple
1. Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
2. Rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in the convent.
3. Grave; sober; solemn; serious: an austere manner.
4. Without excess, luxury, or ease; simple; limited; severe: an austere life.
5. Severely simple; without ornament: austere writing.
6. Lacking softness; hard: an austere bed of straw.
7. rough to the taste; sour or harsh in flavor.
12) Auxiliary - Helping, support
Auxiliary verb – a helping verb
13) Aver - Affirm, assist, prove, justify
1. To assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
2. Law. To allege as a fact.
14) Avid - Eager, greedy
1. Enthusiastic; ardent; dedicated; keen: an avid moviegoer.
2. Keenly desirous; eager; greedy (often fol. by for or of): avid for pleasure; avid of power.
15) Avow - Admit, Declare openly
16) Baleful - harmful ominous causing evil
To remember: Giving bail could be harmful.
17) Baneful - Causing harm or ruin or destruction
18) Balk - Obstruct purposefully
To get on the way
19) Barrage - Artificial obstacle built across a river
20) Beatify - To bless, make happy or ascribe a virtue to
Happiness makes them beautiful (Beatifying makes them beautiful)
The words once again:
1. Ascribe
2. Astute
3. Balk
4. Barrage
5. Avow
6. Baleful
7. Baneful
8. Aver
9. Avid
10. Augury
11. Auxiliary
12. Asperity
13. Cavort
14. Arrant
15. Ascetic
16. Austere
17. Assiduous
18. Attenuate
19. Audacious
20. Beatify
Die hard member of the CAT Maniac group!!
Sorry I couldn’t publish the list yesterday.
As compensation I have come up with 20 words today.
I will compensate with 20 words for another 2 days.
So here is todays list
1) Cavort - To bound
1. To bound or prance about.2. To have lively or boisterous fun; to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner.
The men spent the next few weeks there drinking beer, eating hibachi-grilled fish, and cavorting with the young ladies.
Cavort is perhaps an alteration of curvet, "a light leap by a horse"
2) Arrant - In the highest degree
1. Downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious: an arrant fool.
2. Wandering; errant.
3) Ascetic - Practicing self denial
4) Ascribe - consider to be the origin of or belonging to
To remember: Ascribe: Source; Subscribe: To join the ascribe / source
1. To credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
2. To attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic: They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic.
5) Asperity - roughness harshness
Ill temper irritability
To remember: Prosperity comes when you are humble and Asperity comes when you are ill mannered or harsh
1. Harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony: The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity.
2. Hardship; difficulty; rigor: the asperities of polar weather.
3. Roughness of surface; unevenness.
4. Something rough or harsh
6) Assiduous - Diligent , Hardworking
Industrious, Tireless
1. Constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
2. Constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive: an assiduous student.
7) Astute - Clever, quick at seeing to get an advantage
To remember: Always + Tuned to the surrounding environment.
1. Of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
2. Clever; cunning; ingenious; shrewd: an astute merchandising program; an astute manipulation of facts.
8) Attenuate - Make thin. weaken enervate
1. To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
2. To make thin; make slender or fine.
9) Audacious - daring foolishly bold impudent
1. Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
2. Extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive: an audacious vision of the city's bright future.
3. Recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
4. Lively; unrestrained; uninhibited: an audacious interpretation of her role.
10) Augury - Omen, sign
11) Austere - Severely moral, strict, simple
1. Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
2. Rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in the convent.
3. Grave; sober; solemn; serious: an austere manner.
4. Without excess, luxury, or ease; simple; limited; severe: an austere life.
5. Severely simple; without ornament: austere writing.
6. Lacking softness; hard: an austere bed of straw.
7. rough to the taste; sour or harsh in flavor.
12) Auxiliary - Helping, support
Auxiliary verb – a helping verb
13) Aver - Affirm, assist, prove, justify
1. To assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
2. Law. To allege as a fact.
14) Avid - Eager, greedy
1. Enthusiastic; ardent; dedicated; keen: an avid moviegoer.
2. Keenly desirous; eager; greedy (often fol. by for or of): avid for pleasure; avid of power.
15) Avow - Admit, Declare openly
16) Baleful - harmful ominous causing evil
To remember: Giving bail could be harmful.
17) Baneful - Causing harm or ruin or destruction
18) Balk - Obstruct purposefully
To get on the way
19) Barrage - Artificial obstacle built across a river
20) Beatify - To bless, make happy or ascribe a virtue to
Happiness makes them beautiful (Beatifying makes them beautiful)
The words once again:
1. Ascribe
2. Astute
3. Balk
4. Barrage
5. Avow
6. Baleful
7. Baneful
8. Aver
9. Avid
10. Augury
11. Auxiliary
12. Asperity
13. Cavort
14. Arrant
15. Ascetic
16. Austere
17. Assiduous
18. Attenuate
19. Audacious
20. Beatify
Die hard member of the CAT Maniac group!!
