13 April 2015

13 April 2015

-profligate ( adjective )

·         Recklessly wasteful

-it was a profligate in their expenditure

·         Unrestrained by convention or morality

-she draws a profligate aristocratic society

-jejune ( adjective )

·         Lacking n nutritive value

-she practiced a jejune diet

·         Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

-he just gave jejune responses to our problems

·         Lacking interest, significance or impact @ lame

-I was so sad since I had bought a jejune novel

-lavish ( verb ) ( adjective )

·         Expand profusely; also used with abstract nouns

-he was lavished with praised

·         Very generous

-they distributed gifts with a lavish hand toward the orphans

·         Characterized by extravagance and profusion

-during my birthday party, my mom prepared a lavish buffet

-gourmet ( adjective )

·         (of food) fine; high-quality

-I prepared a lot of gourmet foods for our family picnic

-vague ( adjective )

·         Not clearly understood or expressed

-their descriptions of human behaviour become vague, dull, and unclear

·         Not precisely limited, determined or distinguished

-I don’t know how to express a vague feeling of sadness

·         Lacking clarity or distinctness

-he saw a vague outline of a building through the fog