notes in class

1.   abnegate (v.)

-To renounce (a right or privilege).

 -example: It can abnegate useless samples and make the knowledge of study objects accumulate.

 2.   abominable (adj.)

-Very hateful.

-example: The food in the cafeteria is abominable.

3.   balsam  (n.)

-An ointment containing a fragrant resin

-example: The two pieces being cemented together with a thin film of Canada balsam.

4.   denote  (v.)

-To designate by word or mark.

 -example: These signs denote that a crisis is approaching.

5.    deluge  (v.)

-To overwhelm with a flood of water.

-example: I got caught in the deluge on the way home.

6.   demeanor  (n.)

-Deportment.

-example: He answered, with simple demeanor and without embarrassment.

7.   delineate  (v.)

-To represent by sketch or diagram.

 -example: Neutron activation analysis for uranium in solid may delineate structures.

8.   dutiful  (adj.)

-Obedient.

 -example: I hope you'll be a dutiful daughter-in-law.

9.   ebullient (adj.)

-Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling.

 -example: She wrote the ebullient letter when she got back to her flat.

10.    fief (n.)

-A landed estate held under feudal tenure.

-example: The heir on taking up his ancestors fief had to pay a relief.

11.    finery (n.)

-That which is used to decorate the person or dress.

 -example: She loved to adorn herself with finery.

12.    forthright (adv.)

-With directness.

-example: He told me forthright just why he refused to take my side.

13.   cosmic  (adj.)

-Pertaining to the universe.

-example: This has all the appearance of a cosmic free lunch.

14.    corrosive  (n.)

-That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.

-example: He had again the corrosive sense of failure that always dogged him.

15.   symmetrical  (adj.)

-Well-balanced.

-example: Inflation and deflations are symmetrical.

16.   taxation (n.)

-A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.

-example: Corruption was inevitable so long as businessmen wanted exemption from equitable taxation.

18.   tarnish  (v.)

-To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.

-example: These pessimistic predictions and doubts, however, cannot tarnish facts.

19.    vale (n.)

-Level or low land between hills.

-example: I descended a little on the side of that delicious vale, surveying it with a secret kind of pleasure.

20.   yearling (n.)

-A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old.

-example: Eleanor was thirty-four and saddled with five kids, including a yearling.

21.   zephyr (n.)

-Any soft, gentle wind.

-example: A delicious zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean

22.   nausea (n.)

-An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit.

-example: His head swam with nausea.

 23.    naval (adj.)

-Pertaining to ships.

-example: It was all an amazing naval deployment.

 24.    oblique (adj.)

-Slanting; said of lines.

-example: She made an oblique reference to her own affairs.

25.    oblivion (n.)

-The state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten.

-example: He consigned all the unpleasant thoughts to oblivion.