Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Vocabulary #5


[e/c please!]
My cousins , as well as my best friends, act as a bolster when I am in need of support or uplifting.


Despite their known dispute among their friends, their hug showed them to be conciliatory.


These teenagers are participating in an unhealthy, let alone complicit habit.



Lack of fidelity could be one of the factors for marriages ending up in divorce.


The Argentinians in this picture are in a state of insurrection towards the current US politics and the high unemployment rate in Argentina


Definitions:
1. lucidity - easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
2. conciliatory - To make or attempt to make compatible; reconcile
3. countermand - to revoke or cancel
4. acumen - Quickness, accuracy
5. insurrection - an act or instance of rising in revolt
6. fidelity - loyalty
7. complicit - choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, esp. with others
8. steadfast - firm in purpose, resolution, faith
9. emancipation - freeing someone from the control of another
10. bolster - support and strengthen

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