Outstanding Vocabulary
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Another Term
Another
MAT
term:
Asperity
(
uh
-
spair
-i-tee)
Asperity is harshness or severity.
Total silence at the dinner table, baths in icy water, and prayers five times per day all contributed to the asperity of monastic life.
(Sources:
Master the Miller Analogies Test
, Arco, 2006;
www.milleranalogies.com
;
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/asperity
;
http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/monasticism.php
)
Compiled for
Patricia Ladensack
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