Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Exploring the dictionary

Bellwether
a leader or leading indicator.

Ostentation
excessive or pretentious display.

Camarilla
a group of secret and often scheming advisers.

Importunate
troublesomely urgent.

Woebegone
woeful; also, run-down.

Voluble
characterized by a ready flow of speech.

Afflatus
a divine inspiration.

Pugnacious
combative; quarrelsome.

Caesura
a break or pause in a line of verse; also, any break or pause.

Salubrious
healthful.

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