Monday, February 4, 2013

Spring vocab #2

1) pg86. Praetorian- body guards used by Roman empire's.
2) pg 78. Sieve- an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom.
3) pg81. Veiled-partially covered or concealed.
4) pg81. saccharine-containing sugar
5) pg  .harlequin-a comic character in commedia.
6) pg79. Toil-hard or continuous work
7) pg89. Delinquents-failing in or neglectful
Of a duty
8) insidious-intended to entrap or beguile
9)gibbering- to speak inaccurately or meaningless.
10) harlequin-comical  character, usually masked
11) patronage- act of buying something
12) cadence-pace
13) suffused-to overspread with or as with a liquid
14) centrifuge-an apparatus that rotates at high speed
15) dentrifice-a paste or powder for cleaning teeth
16)leisure-freedom from demands of work
17) vessel-a craft for traveling on water
18) phonograph-any sound reproducing medicine
19)profusion- abundance; abundant quality

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