Reading Vocabulary Unit 2

 a-buse, abused, abusing, nouns. Verb (used with an object)  v. uh-byooz; n. uh-byoos  to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.  2. to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way: to abuse a horse; to abuse one's eyesight.  3. to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign.  4. to commit sexual assault upon.  5. Obsolete. to deceive or mislead abuse

 Baf-fle, verb. Baffled, baffling, noun  baf-uhl  to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.language  2. to frustrate or confound; thwart by creating confusion or bewilderment.  3. to check or deflect the movement of (sound, light, fluids, etc.).movement  4. to equip with a baffle or baffles.  5. Obsolete. to cheat; trick. baffle

 Bar-bar-ism, noun  bahr-buh-riz-uhm  1. a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.barbarous  2. a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition.barbarous  3. the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language.language  4. such a form or construction: Some people consider “complected” as a barbarism barbarism

 Be-wil-der, verb (used with an object)  bih-wil-der  to confuse or puzzle completely; perplex: These shifting attitudes bewilder me. bewilder

 Ca-lam-i-ty, noun  kuh-lam-i-tee  1. a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.  2. grievous affliction; adversity; misery: the calamity of war. calamity

 De-ceive, verb (used with an object)  dih-seev  1. to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.  2. to be unfaithful to (one's spouse or lover).  3. Archaic. to while away (time). deceive

 Folk-lore, noun  fohk-lawr, -lohr  1. the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.  2. the study of such lore.  3. a body of widely held but false or unsubstantiated beliefs folklore

 Knoll, noun  Nohl  a small, rounded hill or eminence; hillock. knoll

 Sin-cer-i-ty, noun  sin-ser-i-tee  freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness sincerity

 Nov-el-ty, noun, novelties, adjective  nov-uhl-tee  1. state or quality of being novel, new, or unique; newness: the novelty of a new job.noveljob  2. a novel occurrence, experience, or proceeding: His sarcastic witticisms had ceased being an entertaining novelty.novel  3. an article of trade whose value is chiefly decorative, comic, or the like and whose appeal is often transitory: a store catering to tourists who loaded up with souvenir pennants and other novelties. novelty