Midterm Vocab
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- glut
- supply with an excess of
- caprice
- a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behaviour
- temerity
- reckless boldness; rashness
- catalepsy
- a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli
- congenial
- pleasant; friendly; in agreement with one's tastes and nature; Ex. congenial weather
- corroborate
- support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- importunate
- troublesomely urgent; overly persistent in request or demand; unreasonable solicitous
- galvanism
- the therapeutic application of electricity to the body
- sublime
- causing deep feelings of wonder, joy, respect, etc.; exalted; noble and uplifting; utter
- insensate
- devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
- epistolary
- written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence
- epigraph
- a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- specious
- seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentionally)
- brindled
- tawny or grayish with spots
- diadem
- an ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty
- sanctum
- a sacred place of pilgrimage
- promethean
- boldly creative; defiantly original
- pugnacious
- combative; belligerent
- redress
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- fractious
- easily irritated or annoyed
- dissolution
- the breaking up or dissolving of something into parts
- circumambulate
- walk around something
- quick-lime
- a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
- munificent
- Extraordinarily generous.
- portly
- euphemisms for 'fat'
- purloin
- make off with belongings of others
- lodestone
- something that is magnetic
- monstropolis
- as large as a city
- squalid
- foul and run-down and repulsive
- dolefully
- with sadness
- stolid
- having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
- cursory
- hasty and without attention to detail
- procure
- get by special effort esp. by unscrupulous or indirect means
- cowed
- frightened into submission or compliance
- absinthe
- strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise
- white elephant
- possession entailing expense and trouble far greater than its usefulness to the owner
- vindictively
- revengefully, seeking vengeance, said, done in revenge
- fetter
- a shackle for the ankles or feet verb: to restrain
- tittered
- laugh in a half-restrained nammer because of nervousness or silliness
- fervent
- sincerely or intensely felt
- lugs
- ears
- dilated
- made wider or larger in all dimensions
- insular
- suggestive of the isolated life of an island
- solicitude
- a feeling of excessive concern
- impertinence
- insolence; rude behavior
- incubus
- burden; very worriying problem; mental care; nightmare; male devil; CF. succubus
- rapacious
- excessively greedy and grasping
- querulous
- habitually complaining
- prolixity
- tedious wordiness, verbosity
- ornery
- stubborn; low or vile; inferior or common; inferior
- boisterously
- (adv.) Rough and noisy; clamourous; unrestrained.
- tyros
- novice
- endeavor
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
- horse
- slang for heroine
- groveling
- (adj.) servile, subservient, lowly
- profane
- grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
- dishevelment
- a state of being untidy
- tarn
- a small steep-banked mountain lake or pool
- irrevocably
- cannot be changed
- harrowing
- extremely disturbing or distressing
- ardor
- warm interest, passion, enthusiasm, zeal
- satiate
- (v.) to satisfy completely; to fill to excess; (adj.) full, satisfied.
- peeved
- annoyed or vexed
- felicity
- A state of well-founded happiness.
- predilection
- a predisposition in favor of something
- scourge
- punish severely
- pullet
- young hen usually less than a year old
- incorporate
- make into a whole or make part of a whole