Vocab from Hard Times, OMAM, and A Separate Peace
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- abashed
- to make ashamed or uneasy; disconcert
- aesthete
- one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
- amiably
- friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likeable
- analogous
- similar or alike in such a way as to permit the drawing of an analogy
- animosity
- bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred
- aphorism
- a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage (saying)
- apparatus
- an appliance or device for a particular purpose
- approbation
- an expression of warm approval; praise
- apse
- a usually semicircular or polygonal, often vaulted recess, especially the termination of the sanctuary end of a church
- austere
- severe or stern in disposition or appearance; somber and grave
- bane
- cause of ruin or harm; death
- bemused
- to cause to be bewildered; confuse
- bolus
- a round mass
- bray
- to utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey
- brusquely
- abrupt and curt in manner of speech; discourteously blunt
- capacious
- capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy
- chaste
- morally pure in thought or conduct; decent and modest
- cogent
- appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing
- cogitation
- thoughtful consideration; meditation
- collaborator
- to work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort
- complacent
- contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned
- congealed
- to cause to solidify
- conniver
- to scheme, plot
- consternation
- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- contentious
- quarrelsome
- convalescence
- gradual return to health after illness
- conventional
- traditional
- corpulent
- excessively fat
- cupola
- a vaulted roof or ceiling
- deigning
- to think it appropriate to one's dignity; condescend
- delude
- to deceive the mind or judgment of
- derange
- to disturb the order or arrangement of
- derision
- an object of ridicule; a laughingstock
- derogatory
- disparaging; belittling; tending to detract or diminish
- detonate
- the act of exploding
- discernible
- perceptible, as by the faculty of vision or intellect
- dispell
- to rid one's mind of
- dowager
- a widow who holds a title or property derived from her deceased husband
- droll
- amusingly odd or whimsically comical
- effulgence
- a brilliant radiance
- elicit
- draw out, bring out, extract, obtain, evoke
- elucidate
- to make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify
- encroachment
- 1. the act of entering silently or gradually upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion; infringement, violation, intrusion
- encumbrance
- a burden or impediment; hindrance, nuisance
- enmity
- hostility, hate, bad feeling, deep-seated, often mutual hatred