weekly vocabulary collection

Most of vocab belows are from The Critic As Artist by Oscar Wilde.

• prattle
  

  …he is so fond of describing to us, perfectly at his ease, and prattling, to his own and our infinite pleasure, of the Indian blue petticoat …

• disciple
  

  Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

• canonise
  

  Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them.

• incorrigible
  

  You are quite incorrigible.

• effeminacy
  (娘)

• censure

• flippant

• thorn
• barren
  

  From the field in which he thought that he had sown thorns, we have gathered our vintage, and the fig-tree that he planted for our pleasure is as barren as the thistle, and more bitter.

• conscience