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| a harsh sounding mixture of words, voives , or sounds. opposeite: euphony. |
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| rhythm, the rise and fall of sounds. ex: we wisthed the tone of his words would have a moer pleasing cadence but he spoke in dull monotone |
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| to presuade somoene to do something he doesnt want to do. ex: joel cajoled me into giving a speech by tellling me what a good speaker i was |
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| immature, youthfully naive, inexperienced, unsophisticated. ex: the patient was alarmed by the callowness of the medical staff |
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| truthfulness; sincere honesty, candid - speak frankly. ex: my bf exhibited candor when he told me that he thought i was a jerk. or 'teddy appreciated ross's candor; teddy was glad to know that ross thought teddy's sideburens looked stupid |
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| free enterprise; an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not by the gov) and in which the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little gov. control. ex: us has capitalistic economy - you decide what/how much for to sell things. |
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| to surrender; to give up or give in. ex: on the 20th day of the strike, workers capitulated and went back to work w/out a new contract. to recapitulate is to summarize as in: few students paid attention so the professor had to recapitulate his major points at the end of class |
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| unpredicable; likely to change at any moment. ex: Billy was very capricious, one minute he said loved coffee, the next ice cream. ex: weather is often said to be capricious, one minitue its snowing, the next its 120 in the shade. caprice = whim ex: penny attempted a somersault off the ten meter diving board as a caprice, it was a painful caprice |
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| a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove some point about its subject. used to bring out hidden character. also verb - to create such a painting. ex: editorial cartoonists often draw caricatures - big noses...are all common in such drawings. |
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| to criticize severely; to chastise. ex: jim's mother in law castigated him for forgetting to pick her up |
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| in chemistry, something that changes the rate fo a chem. reatction w/out itself being changed; anyone or anything that makes something happen w/out being directly involved in it. ex: when the mad scientist dropped a few grains of the catalyst into his test tube, the bubbling liquid began to boil furiously. also used outside of chem as something that speeds something up. |
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