Building a Better Vocabulary

5. bumptious


6. hubris


7. wheedling


8. bombast


9. supercilious

Lecture 13

1. The root umbr, meaning “shade, shadow,” is found in the middle of
   adumbrate, a word that means “to give a sketchy or shadowy outline
   of.”


2. emancipation


3. dishabille


4. prescient

Lecture 14

1. SRQWL¿FDWHV


2. dissembled


3. SHU¿GLRXV


4. agitprop


5. equivocal


6. dogmatic