Irineo Romero

English 101-DO3

Vocabulary

April 30, 2007

1. Hedonism – To seek pleasure. A devotion, especially self-indulgent one, to pleasure and happiness as a way of life.
2. Palatable – To be agreeable, satisfactory, pleasant, passable.
3. Tepid - half-hearted, lukewarm, indifferent, apathetic, moderate, lackadaisical
4. Upheaval - turmoil, disorder, confusion, cataclysm, commotion, disruption, mayhem.
5. Erect - upright, vertical, rigid, stiff, perpendicular
6. Canards - a deliberately false report or rumor, especially something silly intended as a joke.
7. Dogmatism - the tendency to express strongly held opinions in a way that suggests they should be accepted without question.
8. Dogma - A belief or set of beliefs that a religion holds to be true.
9. Hippocampus - A curved ridge of tissue in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain, concerned with basic drives, emotions, and short-term memory and forming part of the limbic system.
10. Sedentary - Involving a lot of sitting and correspondingly little exercise.
11. Interlude - A relatively short period of time between two longer periods, during which something happens that is different from what has happened before and what follows.
12. Ogles- A prolonged flirtatious or desirous look at somebody or something.
13. Evoke - To bring to mind a memory or feeling, especially from the past.
14. Intrisically - Belonging to something as one of the basic and essential features that make it what it is.
15. Pluck – To have courage and determination in meeting danger or difficulty.
16. Peddlin - To promote an idea or belief insistently.
17. Hesitation - The state of being reluctant or undecided.
18. Coaxed- To persuade somebody gently to do something.
19. Vigorous – To be extremely strong and active, physically or mentally.
20. Junctions - The joining of things, or their joined state