Wednesday, November 19, 2008

VOCABULARY WORDS 11-15

11. capon - a male chicken or rooster with its reproductive organs removed for the purpose of
improving the flesh for eating.
Most people love capon.

12. card - a wire-toothed brush or some similar implement.
Please clean the battery cable with a card.

13. caul - a membrane sometimes surrounding the head of a child when born.
When Joey was born he had quite a bit of caul.

14. chignon - a large roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
The new junior high school look for all is a chignon.

15. curt - short or shortened.
That paragraph was very curt.

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