-The famous artist adumbrated the model's sillhouette.
Apotheosis: the elevation or exaltation of aperson to the rank of a god.
-Some teachers believe they have such high authority that students should be looking at them as an apotheosis.
Ascetic: a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
-A priest or minister can be a strong example of an ascetic.
Bauble: a showy, usually cheap,ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
-Thousands of people have made baubles for their Christmas trees as younger kids.
Beguile: to influence by trickery, flattery,etc.; mislead; delude.
-I don't know how some teens do it, but they tend to beguile their parents into letting them do what they want.
Burgeon: to grow or develop quickly;flourish.
-Frogs tend to burgeon after they've surpassed the tadpole stage.
Complement: something that completes or makes perfect.
-A perfect throw after a diving play really complements your effort and strategic.
Contumacious: stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
-Time after time, the teenager was contumacious and never listened to his parents.
Curmudgeon: a bad-tempered, difficult,cantankerous person.
-The curmudgeon teenager would not listen to his parents and ended up getting in trouble with the law.
Didactic: inclined to teach or lecture others too much.
-Some teachers are a little too didactic and sincere that it's hard to take them seriously.
Disingenuous: lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; insincere.
-It was insincere of him not to RSVP
to the party, but show up.
Exculpate: to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
-The judge exculpated his offense after hearing the lawyer's argument.
Faux pas: a slip or blunder in etiquette,manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
-He had a faux pas when he spilled his drink down his shirt.
Fulminate: to explode with a loud noise;detonate.
So many fireworks fulminated on the night of the 4th of July.
Fustian: a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
-His new bedspread was made out of a very rich fustian even though he purchased it for cheap.
Hauteur: haughty manner or spirit;arrogance.
-His head is so big and he's so stubborn he's filled with hauteur.
Inhibit: to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
-The officer inhibited the criminal from his ongoing process of running away.
Jeremiad: a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
-Many people come up with these jeremiads just for attention.
Opportunist: a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc.,to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles.
-By traveling the world at a regular basis, he turned into an opportunist and searches for the greater things in the world.
Unconscionable: not guided by conscience;unscrupulous.
-Many persons actions seem as if they are unconscionable.
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