Vocab Story
– Can you guess what the underlined words mean?

She sat in her boss’ office perusing through the Times magazine on her desk. In reality, she should have been worried because she was not aware of the ignominy that was about to ensue. The putative condition of Ashley’s reputation at her work was not exactly what she thought it was. In fact, her boss had found some things on her social media accounts that seemed to have been leaked to the rest of the company.

Unfortunately, her boss was not known to be a very open-minded person and against her sectarian views she had decided to accept Ashley into her company despite her views on abortion and the Pro-Choice/Pro-life principle.

Unlike the Pro Life/Pro Choice matter however, this mistake that Ashley made was incontrovertible.

Her boss walked into the room. “How are you Ashley?” she said, in a rather harried manner. She was not only nervous about having this discussion with Ashley, but her daughter had called in sick a few minutes ago and she was in a hurry to leave soon.

New words to study for next post’s Vocab Story:

Spurn: to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree with./ Fiercely independent, the elderly couple spurned all offers financial help.
Deprecate: to express scornfully one’s low opinion of…, belittle, bad mouth, decry/ movie critics tried to outdo one another in deprecating the comedy as the stupidest movie of the year.
Extol: to proclaim the glory of/ campaign literature extolling the candidate’s military record
Blithe: having or showing a good mood or disposition, cheery, bright, buoyant, etc./ a blithe, obedient child.
Bellicose: aggressive, argumentative, feeling or displaying eagerness to fight.
Spurious: fake, unnatural, not of natural quality, made with the intention of committing fraud/ claimed that the governor’s election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks (Merriam Webster).
Consummate: having or showing exceptional knowledge or experience in a particular field or endeavor
Confiscatory: relating to or effecting confiscation/ if tax rates escalated any further, taxes would become confiscatory, allowing hard-working individuals to keep little of their well-earned income!
Sojourning: a temporary residing as another’s guest, staying in, residing in temporarily/ She decided to teach English in Korea, sojourning in that country for a year.
Galvanize: to cause a pleasurable stimulation of feelings, charge, electrify, excite/ theatergoers were galvanized by the actor’s powerhouse performance as Hamlet.

Spurious Synonyms, Spurious Antonyms. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spurious