Integrity Glossary

Integrity Glossary

Canonization

the process by which someone is made into a saint in the Catholic Church

Prudence

caution or foresight

Tethered

fastened or tied to something

Expletive

a profanity

Draggle

to drag through the mud

Debar

to ban or exclude from taking place

Gingham

a cotton fabric, usually striped or checked

Incubator

apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially

Highboy

a tall chest of drawers

Patent

an invention or product that the government ensures will only be sold or manufactured by a particular individual or company for a certain number of years

Unobtrusively

not getting in the way, unnoticed

Lugubrious

mournful, dismal

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