vocab #1

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
Ascetic:characterized by
Bauble: a small decoration
Beguile:charm
Burgeon:increase rapidly
Complement:a thing that completes or brings to perfection
Contumacious:stubbornly disobediant
Curmudgeon:a bad tempered or surly person
Didactic:intended to teach

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