Wednesday, August 6, 2008

New Vocab



  1. mercurial

  2. truculence

  3. peremptory

  4. dilettantish

  5. exegesis

Hitler was truculent and imperious in conquest. Up to a certain point, his peremptory nature, while scaring the mercurial former Allies, elicited only dilettantish reference to collective security.

**Most of these words and ideas are courtesy of Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy.

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