Vocabulary Log #6

WEDNESDAY

• folderol

-Nonsense
Stacy wanted nothing to do with the fuss and folderol of Valentine's Day and felt lucky that she had found in Lucas a partner who felt the same way

• paltry

-Too small of an amount
The hotel's shabby, outdated exercise room was its paltry attempt at a health spa

• reconcile

-To find a way of making (two different ideas) exist or be true at the same time; To cause ppl to become friendly again after a disagreement
Historians have never been able to reconcile the two eyewitness accounts of a battle

•  evoke

-to bring into mind
The house evoked memories of his childhood

• impertinent

-Rude and showing lack of respect
The imperyinent child had a smart answer for everything

THURSDAY

• haberdasher

-a person who owns or works in a shop that sells men's clothes
He went straight to the haberdasher once he entered the shop

• surly

-Bad tempered and unfriendly
He left with a surly expression

• notion

-a conception of or belief about stg
Children have different notions about the roles of their parents

• forthwith

-immediately
We undertake to pay forthwith  the money required

• placid

-Not easily upset or excited
This horse has a placid nature

• mollified

-appease the anger or anxiety of stg; soften
Nature reserves were set up around the power stations to mollify local conservationists