Vocabulary Words

VOCABULARY WORDS – WEEK OF 9/27/10 - 3rd Block Only

      1.       Aficionado – a devoted follower; a fan 

2.       Ambivalent – caught in the middle; undecided

 

3.       Bevy – a group; flock

 

4.       Belligerent – stubbornly inclined to fight

 

5.       Bourgeois – middle class; conventional

 

6.       Conciliatory – peace-making; resolving through goodwill

 

7.       Debacle – a violent disruption; breakdown; collapse

 

8.       Docile – obedient; easily taught

 

9.       Ethereal – of heaven or the spirit; characterized by delicate lightness

 

10.   Exacerbate – to aggravate a condition or make it worse