Archive for April, 2009

Vocab 3/31

Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2009 by clarisseo

Profane: vulgar; obscene

1.Most rap artist lyrics contain profane words about women and money.

Pernicious:having a harmful affect

2.Smoking causes pernicious health affects like lung cancer .

Augment: to make greater in size

3.Eating a lot of unhealthy junk-food caused him to augment into an obese weight.

Languish: to yearn for someone/something

4.During the summer, he languished for his love and couldn’t stop thinking of her.

Obscure: not clear in meaning

5.When they went to Japan, everyone was speaking a language completely obscure to them and didn’t understand they were saying.