Monday, November 26, 2007

This Week's Vocabulary

misbelief - [n] wrong or erroneous belief
misdeed - [n] bad act, wicked deed; crime, offense
misfire - [v] (literally, to "fire wrongly") fail to fire or explode properly
misgiving - [n] uneasy feeling; feeling of doubt or suspicion; lack of confidence
mishap - [n] bad happening; misfortune; unlucky accident; mischance
mislay - [v] put or lay in a unremembered place; lose
mislead - [v] lead astray; deceive; delude; beguile
misstep - [n] wrong step; slip in conduct or judgment; blunder
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outgrow - [v] grow beyond or too large for
outlandish - [adj] looking or sounding foreign; strange; fantastic
outlast - [v] last longer than; outlive; survive
outlook - [n] looking ahead or beyond; prospect for future
output - [n] (literally, "what is put out") yield or produce; amount produced
outrun - [v] run faster than
outspoken - [adj] speaking out freely; frank; vocal; not reserved
outwit - [v] get the better of someone by being more clever; outsmart; outfox

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

thnks