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Vocabulary LA
Vocabulary words and definition
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| profusely | spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant |
| boisterous | rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained |
| reprimands | a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority. |
| reluctantly | unwilling; disinclined |
| jovial | endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship |
| paraphernalia | equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: |
| lottery | un, plural lotteries. 1. a gambling game or method of raising money, as for some public charitable purpose, in which a large number of tickets are sold and a drawing is held for certain prizes |
| ritual | an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite. |
| perfunctory | performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: |
| Lapse | an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: |
| interminably | incapable of being terminated; unending: |
| soberly | not intoxicated or drunk |
| gravely | Samuel L(ee), Jr. 1922–2004, U.S. naval officer: first black admiral |
| petulantly | small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand |
| beamed | any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines. |