vocab words 3-11-12

  1. improperity
    the condition of being improper; incorrectness
  2. potential
    1) possible or future though not yet actual, definate, or real

    2) capable of being developed, realized, or used
  3. engaging
    winning; pleasing; chharming
  4. perseverance
    the act or quality of holding to a course, belief, purpose etc., without giving way
  5. rendition
    1) an interprettation or performance of a musical composition


    2) a pictorial
  6. scale
    • to weigh on scales
    • to have a weight of
  7. searing
    • -to burn or char the surface of
    • -extremely hot which can cause withering, shrivilng, and drying up
  8. straddle
    to sit astride

    to appear to favor both sides
  9. pinnacle
    1) a tall pointed or nstion of a mountain peak

    2) the peak or summit of anyting

    3) A small turret or spire on a roof
  10. labyrinth
    1) a network passages that which it is difficult to find ones way without help; a maze
  11. remote
    far apart, distant in time
  12. circumstance
    a condition detail or part with respect to time, place, etc. that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event
  13. primitive
    BEING THE FIRST OR EARLIEST OF THE LAND OR IN EXISTENCE ESPECCIALY IN AN EARLY CHANGE OF THE WORLD
  14. informant
    a person who gives you informatiooon, a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to thee questions of an investigator
  15. transcendent
    going beyond ordinary limits, exceeding

    supreme or supirior
  16. exile
    1) A person banished from hiis/her home land

    2) the fact or state of such expulsion
  17. puritanical
    very strict in moral or regular matters, often excessively
  18. edict
    a degree issud by a sovereign or other authority
  19. persuasive
    able, fitted or intended to persuade(advising or urgeing someone to do something)
  20. virtuoso
    a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field
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vocab words 3-11-12
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