Part+2+Ch.+8-12

**asceticism **— austere in appearance, manner, or attitude **bombastic **— pompous **chirruped **— chirped **fastidious **— having high and often capricious standards **obtuse **— not clear or precise in thought or expression **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">profundity **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— intellectual depth <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">reticence **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— restraint <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">bracken **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— a large coarse fern <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">cosmopolitan **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— having worldwide rather than limited or provincial scope or bearing <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">dilatory **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— characterized by procrastination <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">dowagers **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— dignified elderly women <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">epigram **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">incongruous **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— lacking propriety <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">pince-nez **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— eyeglasses clipped to the nose by a spring <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">filial **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— having or assuming the relation of a child or offspring <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">ingenuously **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">cornice **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns and <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">architectural composition <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">**<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">impassive **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— giving no sign of feeling or emotion
 * <span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif;">surreptitious **— acting or doing something clandestinely; stealthy
 * <span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">tacit **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— implied or indicated by not actually expressed
 * <span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">promontory **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— a prominent mass of land overlooking or projecting into a lowland
 * <span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">querulous **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— habitually complaining
 * <span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold,serif; font-size: 12pt;">sward **<span style="font-family: Berkeley-Medium,serif; font-size: 12pt;">— a grassy surface of land