2. Vocabulary Lesson 15

3. aesthetic pertaining to beauty artistic

4. chaff worthless matter rubbish

5. egregious remarkably bad; outrageous flagrant; gross

6. empirical based on practical experience rather than theory observable

7. flaccid flabby weak; feeble

8. foment to stir up; to incite instigate; arouse

9. germane relevant; fitting appropriate; pertinent; suitable

10. hallow to make holy bless; consecrate

11. hermetic tightly sealed airtight

12. hospice a shelter for travelers, orphans, or the ill or destitute

13. meretricious attractive in a cheap, flashy way gaudy; showy; tawdry

14. orifice mouth; opening

15. perdition damnation; ruin; hell

16. querulous complaining; grumbling fretful; peevish

17. ratiocinate to reason; to think