Sunday, May 16, 2010

Vocabulary Words # 9 (Week of March 15, 2010)

Bourgeoisie- middle-class people, materialistic in outlook

Proletariat- working class, wage-earning workers in society

Stop-loss- a provision that limits the amount of some types of insurance or investment loss to a predetermined level

Elucidate- to explain or clarify something

Elusive- hard to find/catch, pin down, or remember

Profligate- wasteful, having low morals

Chasm- A deep hole in the earth, a wide difference in feelings, ideas interests, etc.

Fulminate- to speak critically, to explode

Ostentatious- rich and showy

Obfuscate- to make something unclear, especially to make things complicated, to confuse

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