Week 5 Mrs. King Vocabulary

Swindle

• Give someone money

• Cheat someone out of money

• Pay for dinner

austerity

• The trait of great self-denial or luxury

• Someone who is better than others

• Someone who is part of high society

buffoon

• A person who amuses others with ridiculous behaviors.

• A monkey

• A rude or vulgar person.

• Someone who is a fool.

decorum

• One who likes to decorate.

• One who demonstrates appropriate behavior or conduct

disreputable

• Someone who is disdained.

• Lacking respectability in character, behavior or appearance.

• One who likes to argue

• Not in good standing dishonorable

Equity

• the owners share of a business

• when a math problem is the same

• state of being fair and just

Nocturnal

• Occurring at night

• Being awake in the day

• Being awake at night and asleep in the day

odyssey

• A long journey

• A name of a man

• A song

opulence

• Lacking wealth

• Wealth or affluence

• A nail polish

plethora

• A woman in the Odyssey

• Extreme excess

  too much of something

• Misplaced things