Vocabulary Week 3









1.)Disseminate (v) : to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast
As with broadcast, the radio was the most effective tool back in the early 1900's in America, being the most effective way to get your word out in the open, and disseminate is the closest word to it.

2.)Austere (adj) : severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding
I randomly thought of Harry Potter's Professor Mcgonagall since she was the strict one throughout the 7 books.

3.)Baleful (adj) : full of menacing or malign influences
THE DEVIL MAKES YOU DO EVERYTHING
4.)Bigot (n) :a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion
Biggest Bigot of them all? Hitler

5.)Sanguine (adj) : cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
If you're happy all the time, you can always be sanguine, just like happy of the 7 dwarves in Snow White.


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