Spring Vocab #2

Vessel: A hallow utensil used as a container for liquids. A person considered as a receptacle or agent of some quality.

Suffused: To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light

Sieve: A utensil of wire mesh or closely performed metal used for straining, sifting, ricing, or pureeing.

Patronage: Support, encouragement, or championship from a patron. Trade given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

Centrifuge: An apparatus consisting essentially of a compartment spun about a central axis to separate contained materials of different density or to simulate gravity with centrifugal force.

Dentifrice: A substance, such as a powder or paste, for cleaning the teeth.

Leisure: Freedom from time-consuming duties, responsibilities, or activities. Having free time.

Saccharine: Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet. Having a cloyingly sweet attitude, tone, or character.

Phonograph: A machine that reproduces sound from a disc.

Profusion: The state of being profuse; abundance. Lavish or unrestrained expense.

Cadence: Balance, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory. The measure or beat of movement, as in dancing or marching. A failing inflection of the voice, as the end of the sentence.

Delinquents: Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.

Gibbering: to speak inarticulately or meaninglessly.

Insidious: Intended to entrap or beguile. Stealthily treacherous or deceitful. Operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect.

Strewn: To let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle.

Praetorian: Of or pertaining to a praetor.

Veiled: Covered or concealed by, or as if by. Not openly or directly expressed; masked; disguised; hidden; obscure.

Harlequin: A comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand. Any of various small snakes having bright diamond-pattern scales.

Toil: Hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.