Vocab

Stupid: having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense

Adumbrate: report or represent in outline.

Apotheosis: the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax.

Ascetic:characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

Bauble:a small, showy trinket or decoration.

Beguile :charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.

Burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.

Complement: a thing that completes or brings to perfection.

Curmudgeon: a bad-tempered or surly person

Didactic: intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.


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