Words of the Week

1.Imbibed
2. Sir Thomas More “Utopia”
3.These in such like notions has that people imbibed. Partly from their education, being bread in a country whose customs and laws are opposite to all such foolish maxims…
4.To absorb
5.They were imbibing far to many pitcher of beer.

1. Sagacity
2. Sir Thomas more “Utopia”
3. They have a particular sagacity, founded upon much observation, in judging of the weather, by which they know when they may look for rain, wind, or other altercations in the air….
4. Shrew and wise
5. The sagacious old man hated Christmas.

1. Dexterous
2. Sir Thomas More “Utopia”
3. He was very dexterous at unraveling them.
4. Skillful with the use of hands and mid
5. The hairdresser is very dexterous in her line of work.

1. Abhorrent
2. Sir Thomas More “Utopia
3. “is that to be compassed in a way so abhorrent to my genius?”
4. a feeling of repugnance or loathing
5. He looked a the girl abhorrently as she passed him by.

1. Impudence
2. Sir Thomas More “Utopia”
3. When it did not grow up to impudence, as baring a great resemblance to his own temper; and he looked on such persons as the fittest man for affairs.
4. Not Showing due respect for another
5. The man had little impudence for his superiors.

1. Pestiferous
2. Sir Thomas More “Utopia”
3. In France there is yet a more pestiferous sort of people….
4. Bothersome or annoying
5. Furlough days are becoming more and more pestiferous in California State Universities.

1. Exhort
2. Plato Symposium and Phaedurs
3. Where for let us exhort all men to piety, that we may avoid the evil and obtain the good, of which love is the lord and the leader….
4. To urge by strong argument, advice or appeal
5. Governor Schwarzenegger finally exhorted the importance of education.

1. Magnanimity
2. Plato Symposium and Phaedrus
3. I should be strangely forgetful, agathon, replied Socrates, of the courage and magnanimity which you showed when your compositions were about to be exhibited…
4. Generous or noble
5. The mans’ magnanimous virtues were thought highly of among his peers.

1. Encomium
2. Plato Symposium and Phaedrus
3. Now I love to hear him talk; but just at present I must not forget the encomium on love, which I ought to receive from him and everyone.
4. Lofty praise or tribute
5. Students had a day or encomium for their alumni.

1. Wantonly
2. Plato "Symposium and Phaedrus"
3. He appeared to me wantonly ambitious of showing how well he could say the same thing in two or three ways.
4. Gratuitously cruel; merciless
5. His actions were wantonly as he killed the man with his bear hands.