Vocab: Spring 1

1. Adumbrate: Report or to represent in outline.
2. Apotheosis: The highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax.
3. 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 reason.
4. Bauble: A small, showy trinket or decoration.
5. Beguile: Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.
6. Burgeon: Begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.
7. Complement: A thing that completes or brings to perfection.
8. Contumacious: Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.
9. Curmudgeon: A bad tempered or surly person.
10. Didactic: Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.