Friday Blog: Week Five

This week I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon pages 1-144. while reading I came across a few words that I was unfamiliar with.

Vocab:

Advantageous P.25
Providing an advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable; profitable; useful; beneficial.
Erroneous P.39 
Straying from what is moral, decent, proper, etc.
Promulgate P.43
To make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation.
Remuneration P.51
To pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
Bruit P.74
To voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed by about ):
Recalcitrant P.85
Resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
Beguile P.89
To influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
Circumlocution P.113
A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
Empirical P.128
Depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, especially as in medicine.
Obdurate P.136
Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.

All definitions are taken from Dictonary.com