P3 Vocabulary Words Feb. - March 4

1. (adj) blasé - apathetic, indifferent, nonchalant

2. (n) paradigm - model, pattern, or outline

3. (adj) amicable - friendly, peaceful

4. (adj) ostentatious - vulgar, showy or pretentious

5. (adj) despotic - authoritarian: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule

6. (n) enclave - an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it

7. (adj) abundant - in great quantity

8. (n) animosity - a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

9. (n and adj) stratum - •one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another

•class: people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

•level: an abstract place usually conceived as having depth


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