Week 10 English Vocab
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SarahBrodeur on April 29, 2010
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Circumspect | careful; cautious; prudent |
| Peccadillo | a small sin or fault |
| Rigmarole | confused, incoherent, foolish talk; a complicated and petty procedure |
| Embezzle | to steal money that was entrusted in your care |
| Acrid | bitter; sharp; irritating to taste or smell |
| Onus | task; burden; responsibility |
| Recalcitrant | unruly; refusing to obey authority |
| Sub rosa | secretly; confidentially |
| Gargantuan | huge; gigantic; prodigious (!) |
| Paradigm | example or pattern; a set of forms in grammer all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem (as in verb declensions) |
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