Vocabulary List #8

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Impediment

One mistake at work need not be an impediment to your advancement in the company

Back

Something that gets in the way; an obstacle

Front

Expedient

Jasper decided it would be expedient for him to leave town as soon he could

Back

Practical; prudent

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Pedestrian

Although I thought my trip to the city would be thrilling, it turned out to be rather pedestrian

Back

Lacking excitement; ordinary and dull

Front

Pedant

Only a pedant would go into such detail on the most minor points of grammar

Back

One possessing abundant knowledge of minor, often uninteresting things

Front

Pedagogue

Because our previous teachers had been a terrible bore, we expected the new teacher to be a pedagogue of the same type

Back

A teacher, especially one who is dull and narrow minded

Front

Travesty

Some of the books being published today are travesty of the great literature that came before them

Back

A bad imitation of; a perversion of

Front

Vested

Because Joy does not have a vested interest in the company, she doesn't have to worry if it goes bankrupt

Back

Significant to one's own profit or well being

Front

Vestment
The youngest members of the choir did not want to wear their vestments because they felt that the clothes weren't cool

Back

Clothing won to symbolize religious or political authority

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Divest

When his cheating was discovered, Brian was divested of the office of student body president

Back

To strip or remove a title or position of authority

Front

Corporeal

Some religious writers focus on the differences between corporeal form and spiritual essence

Back

Having to do with the body