Farewell To Arms Vocab
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- Abyss
- Bottomless Hole
- Anarchist
- Participant in Anarchism- the theory that all forms of government should be abolished
- Appreciate
- To raise in value
- Articulate
- To speak distinctly, clearly
- Atheist
- one who does not believe in God or Gods
- Authority
- a source from which something is drawn
- Blasphemy
- showing lack of respect for God
- Brittleness
- easily damaged, fragile
- Buttress
- Supports or strengthens
- Censor
- One who regulates
- Champion
- To defend or to support
- Cloister
- to shut away, seclusion, to seclude or confine
- Coagulate
- to conjeil, to become jelly-like
- Compatriot
- A fellow countryman, countryperson
- Conceit
- high opinion of ones self
- Consecrate
- To declare sacred
- Conspicuous
- easy to notice, obvious
- Contempt
- scorn, despised, the state of being despised
- Converge
- to move together/come together
- Cynical
- Critical, no faith in mankind
- Depriciate
- To lessen the price/value of something
- Disputations
- debating, inclined to fight, argue
- Eddy
- a current of air going the opposite direction of the mainstream
- Edifying
- To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement
- Epithet
- a term or phrase describing or characterizing
- Exhaust
- to wear out, use up, drain
- Feint
- Fake attack
- Felicitous
- Happy, delighted
- Fiasco
- Complete failure, mess
- Furrow
- to make wrinkles/grooves; shallow trench
- Gaunt
- thin, angular