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DeniseNoonan on April 7, 2009
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Print List| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| ostracize | exclude from society |
| falsetto | unnaturally high voice |
| hounds-tooth | pattern of jagged or broken checks as on fabric |
| halitosis | offensive breath (medical condition) |
| burlesque | an imitatioin that ridicules; artistic travesty |
| verification | ascertain correctness |
| nonchanlant | indifferent, cool lack of concern |
| frock | dress; loose robe |
| atheist | person who believes there is no God |
| rubberneck | slang for a person who gazes about in curiosity |
| compulsory | required, coerced, necessary |
| putrid | rotten, disgusting, foul, decayed |
| bourgeois | of the middle class |
| expel | fouce out |
| pedagogical | instruction in teaching methods |
| provocative | incites to action, tending to provoke, stimulating |
| sacrilegious | disrepect, irreverence, desecrating, profanition of the sacred |
| digress | wander from the main purpose, sidetracking, go off on tangent |
| boisterous | rough, noisy, loud |
| qualm | reservation, moment of hesitation, misgivings |
| sadist | torturer |
| inane | banal, lacking meaning or point, sill, jejune |
| unscrupulous | dishonset; not guiding or controlled by moral principles |
| existentialism | A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe |