Vocabulary 4th

• 1.) Pedantry- Noun- Someone being excessively concerned with minor details and rules displaying with academic learning. The meeting included various pedantry of churches.

2.) Odious Adjective- Extremely unpleasant- The odious woman ate babies.
3.) Luxuriant- Adjective- Rich and profuse in growth. The snobby luxurious boy requested the butler at once.
4.) Dictum- Noun- A former pronouncement from a authoritative sort. The dictum of George Bush was rather negative.
5.) Cacophony- Noun- a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. Jade's cacophony became more and more obnoxious.
6.) Proclivity- Noun- a tendency to choose or do something regularly.
7.) Proboscis- Noun- The nose of a mammal. The animal's proboscis began to smell of foul odor, and was soon forced outside.
8.) Stratum- Noun- a layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground. The unsuspecting man had encountered a human body in the stratum beneath the ground.
9.) Mausoleum- Noun- a large or stately building. Several Al Queda rushed into the mausoleum unwary about the events about to take place.
10.) Marionette- Noun- A puppet worked from above by strings attached to its limbs. The child obeyed his parents like a marionette obeyed its handler.
11.) Phoenix- Noun- In classical mythology  a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle. The phoenix ascended into the sky only to plummet back down towards the earth.