No homework tonight.
Here is the vocabulary list for the week:
Vocabulary List 4
- Xenophobia (n): a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers
- Yarn (n): a long story of adventure
- Yoke (v): to join or link
- Zany (adj): ludicrously or whimsically comical; crazy
- Zeal (n): enthusiasm, fervor
- Abdicate (v): to relinquish or give up a position, power, right, or claim
- Aberrant (adj): deviating from the normal; exceptional
- Balm (n): soothing ointment or anything soothing
- Cajole (v): use flattery to persuade
- Calibrate (v): mark an accurate scale on a device
- Dawdle (v): to waste time; move slowly
- Dearth (n): insufficient supply; scarcity
- Eclectic (adj): selecting from various sources
- Ecumenical (adj): pertaining to the whole Christian church; universal
- Facetious (adj): playful and humorous; not intended to be taken seriously