Mr. Linn's Vocab
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- Admonish
- To scold or rebuke in a mild but earnest manner
- Allegory
- A story representing something else
- Ambrosia
- Mythology: food eaten by the gods to make them immortal
- Amity
- Friendly relations
- Amorphous
- Without a clear shape, form, or structure/not obviously belonging to a certain type or category
- Anthropomorphism
- Putting a human characteristic onto something non-human like a god in mythology or a pretend animal in childrenÂ’s stories
- Archaic
- Belonging or relating to something ancient/from a much earlier period/old-fashioned & out of use
- Ardor
- Extremely intense, strong feelings
- Balm
- 1. soothing oil 2. Something with a soothing effect 3. a pleasant smell
- Beguile
- To charmingly hold someoneÂ’s attention or devotion
- Bastion
- Someone or something thatÂ’s a strong supporter or defender of something
- Benign
- 1. having a kind and gentle appearance 2. not a threat to life or long-term health
- Boor
- Someone who behaves in an ill-mannered way
- Carnage
- A widespread massacre or slaughter normally of human beings
- Collectivism
- Usually done under the government, it is the system of control over the distribution of farms and factories by the nationÂ’s people
- Common Enemy
- People coming together against something or someone
- Continuum
- Two things or a series of things that blend into each other so gradually you cannot tell when one becomes the other (like the colors in a rainbow)
- Covenant
- A solemn agreement
- Cuirass
- 1. A piece of armor made of leather or metal for the upper body covering the chest and sometimes the back 2. any protective covering
- Cusp
- A point or a pointed end of something
- Deference
- Polite respect/putting someone elseÂ’s interests first
- Deify
- 1. To make someone into a god 2. to honor someone or something as if it were a god
- Dissemble
- The act of concealing your true nature, and putting on a fake front to conceal facts, feelings, or intentions
- Duplicity
- the quality of having 2 opposite sides
- Effigy
- Statue/model of someone that is disliked, which is then abused (like put on fire or something)
- Equivocal
- Uncertain/ambiguous
- Estrange
- To cause someone to not be friendly and distance themselves from someone.
- Execration
- 1. A curse 2. something that is cursed and/or detested 3.the act of execrating someone or something, or the state of being execrated
- Exulted
- To be extremely happy, sometimes because of someone elseÂ’s loss.
- Frivolous
- Something silly and trivial, lacking any real intellectual substance
- Gall
- Boldness with lack of respect
- Glutton
- Someone greedy who over eats and over drinks
- Harangue
- To criticize or try to persuade someone in an overly forceful way
- Implacable
- Impossible to reduce in strength or force
- Incongruous
- Which does not fit with the rest; which seems out of place
- Inexorable
- Which cannot be changed/influenced
- Insatiable
- impossible to satisfy
- Insidious
- Quietly treacherous; working secretly to do harm
- Insolent
- Showing a lack of respect in speech or behavior
- Lethargy
- (feeling of) unwillingness to do anything; lack of energy
- Lucid
- 1. clearly/easily understood 2. able to think clearly
- Malingering
- To fake illness to avoid work
- Multifarious
- Many different things/parts/people
- Muse
- Greek Mythology: The 9 goddesses that inspired different creative arts (like artists and writers etc.)
- Myriad
- very large number
- Nebulous
- Vague, not clear
- Nectar
- Greek and Roman mythology: A drink that makes the gods maintain their beauty and immortality
- Oblique
- Indirect/Not straight forward
- Oligarchy
- (country with a) government by a few powerful people
- Omnipotent
- All-powerful
- Omniscient
- Knowing or seeming to know everything
- Orthodoxy
- Being conformed to the social un-written rules and appropriateness
- Palpable
- 1. Which can be felt 2. Obvious or easily observed
- Paradox
- Thing which appears to contradict itself but may really be true
- Pedantic
- Paying too much attention to the correct rules and details
- Peerless
- Incomparable/without an equal
- Phantasm
- A supposed being like a ghost or a spirit that can be seen but doesn't have physical substance
- Pommel
- 1. The handle of a sword 2. The knob that curves upwards on the front part of a western horse saddle
- Proletariat
- The working/labor class of people
- Punctilious
- extremely attentive to details
- Pyre
- A pile of burning word, especially on which someone dead is burned ceremonially
- Rancor
- Resentment
- Rectify
- To correct/to make right
- Respite
- Resting briefly for recovery from exertion/A temporary delay
- Rogue
- Someone dishonest
- Sanguine
- a blood red color
- Spurious
- False: Not being what it claims to be
- Sortie
- 1. A small military force making an attack into enemy territory 2. the people on the sortie
- Tumult
- A violent or noisy commotion
- Torpor
- Lack of energy/Laziness
- Totalitarianism
- A government that refuses to allow the existence of opposition
- Truism
- Saying which is quite obviously true, and therefore need not be said
- Ulcer
- A sore on the body
- Vile
- Extremely unpleasant/bad
- Versatile
- 1. With many uses 2. able to move easily from one skill, task, or subject to another
- Visceral
- Going and doing something by instinct and not doing what seems logical
- Votive
- Given or offered to fulfill an oath or a vow
- Wafted
- Moved or floated gently through the air
- Wanton
- Without discipline or restraint, especially in sexual behavior
- Hubris
- excessive pride or arrogance
- Ignominy
- A loss of dignity or honor
- archetype
- The ideal thing of that type
- Connotation
- Implied, additional, deeper meaning
- denotation
- The basic meaning of a word
- Impetus
- Something that provides energy or motivation or accomplish or undertake something
- Pathos
- A quality in something that arouses emotions of pity
- Ethos
- Lessons on issues like right, wrong, and what's honorable
- animus
- unfriendly attitude/hostility
- Incendiary
- having to do w/ fire
- Expidient
- Appropriate/Advisable
- Enumerate
- To list off a number of individual things
- Munificence
- genorosity
- Concubine
- A women who lives with a man in an active relationship but is not married to him
- Dolorous
- Involving sorrow or pain
- Parricide
- The murder of a parent or a king
- Tithe
- 10% of someone's income given to support their church
- admonition
- a mild but earnest rebuke
- Sage
- Someone who is regarded as being wise and experienced
- malignant
- full of hate and wanting to do evil
- Panoply
- an impressive display of something
- Nocturnal
- Occurring at night, as opposed to during the day
- subjective
- Based on someoneÂ’s opinions or feelings rather than facts or evidence
- objective
- free of any bias or prejudice caused by personal feelings
- Poignant
- causing a sharp sense of sadness, pity, or regret
- Inculcate
- To fix something firmly in someoneÂ’s mind by repetition
- soothsayer
- someone who predicts the future
- Visage
- someone's face or facial expressions
- portend
- to be an indication or omen that something is going to happen, espcially something unpleasent
- Rebuke
- to criticize or reprimand somebody, usual sharply
- Audacity
- boldness or daring
- melee
- a noisy conufsed fight
- Parsimonious
- very frugal or ungenerous
- bulwark
- a wall-like structure built to keep out attackers
- impregnable
- Too strong to be captured or opened by force
- Promontory
- a point of land which juts out into the sea
- Odious
- inspiring hatred, contempt, or disgust
- talisman
- a magical object believed to bring powers to whoever has it
- sovereign
- 1. [noun] the ruler or head of a state (like a king or queen) 2. [adj.] independent, self-governing and not ruled by any other state
- subjugate
- To bring someone, especially a people or nation, under the control of another
- Concentric
- with a common middle point
- parsimony
- very frugal or stingy
- Euphemism
- a word or a phrase that's used to replace something that could be considered offensive
- lecher
- a man who behaves in a lustful way that's regarded disapprovingly
- demure
- looking or behaving in a modest, serious manner
- harrowed
- to break up land by pulling a harrow over it
- brazen
- made of brass or resembling it
- Calamity
- a disastrous situation
- dirge
- a song of mourning or lament, especially for a funeral
- convivial
- enjoyable because of its friendliness
- gleaner
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a. someone who obtains information in small amounts over a period of time
b. the person that goes over a feild that has been harvested and gathers any of the usable crops that remain - Vexation
- The state of being provoked to iribility or anxiety
- Cline
- a continuum between two extremes
- Satiate
- to satisfy or gratify a desire
- brawn
- very strong muscles
- abjure
- to formally renounce something
- intimate
- Marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
- conciliate
- to work with conflicting sides trying to bring them to come to an agreement
- derisive
- showing contempt or ridicule
- embroil
- to involve someone or yourself in conflict
- coddle
- to be overprotective of someone
- goad
- to drive someone to do something
- victuals
- food
- Clarion
- medieval trumpet
- Addle
- To confuse or befuddle someone, or to become confused or befuddled
- evoke
- to bring to mind a memory or feeling, especially from the past
- demonic
- related to or resembling a demon
- bane
- something that causes misery
- citadel
- fortress used as a place of refuge
- copious
- produced or existing in large quantities
- graven
- fixed firmly in someone's mind
- astute
- clever and perceptive, especially for personal benefit
- poltroon
- an offensive term for someone regarded as a coward
- bereft
- deprived of someone or something loved or valued
- ephemeral
- lasting for only a short period of time
- arbiter
- someone who has the authority to settle a dispute or decide an issue
- Scourge
- something that causes suffering
- intrepid
- fearless and persistent on the pursuit of something
- Furtive
- secretive
- taciturn
- uncommunicative by nature
- Glade
- clearing w/o trees or bushes in a forest
- Realism
- a practical understanding and acceptance of the actual nature of the world, rather than an idealized view of it
- Immoral
- contrary to accepted moral principles
- amoral
- not concerned or cooperative with morals
- autonomy
- political independence and self-government
- reticent
- reserved and unwilling to communicate or reveal very much
- flotsam
- wreckage and debris found floating in water from a ship
- Jetsam
- cargo which has been discarded to lighten the load of a ship in distress
- Ostentatious
- a boastful display of wealth and sucess
- inimical
- not favorable
- litany
- prayers during worship for the blessing of god
- pugnacious
- inclined to fight or be aggresive
- Synergy
- The working together of 2 or more to create a result which is greater than the sum of their individual capabilities
- Prevaricate
- to evade the truth
- Fastidious
- picky about small details being just right
- Garret
- an attic room immediately below the roof
- Tremulous
- trembling or quavering, especially because of nervousness
- Presentiment
- feeling that something (especially bad) will soon happen
- trifle
- something trivial
- emaciate
- to make or to become extremely thin
- consumption
- the act of eating or drinking
- bravado
- boldness or courage
- tribulation
- harship that causes misery or distress
- Titular
- having a particular title without the power to exercise the functions usually associated with it
- condescending
- behaving towards people in a way that shows you consider yourself superior
- Indignant
- angry because of something (or someone) unjust
- haughty
- behaving in an arrogant or condescending way
- Rend
- to violently tear
- Bacchus
- the god of wine
- aversion
- a strong feeling of dislike
- Ikon
- an image of a holy person (also spelled "icon")
- Monomania
- an obsessive preocupation in a single thing/idea/thought
- Morose
- gloomy
- morbid
- showing interest in morose subjects (such as murder, death, accidents, etc.)
- melancholy
- thoughtful or gentle sadness
- delirium
- a state of mental disturbance
- Consternation
- a feeling of dismay which is caused by something unexpected
- diffident
- lacking self-confidence and rather shy
- Slovenly
- not concerned with personal hygiene and tidiness (offensive term)
- Providential
- resulting from god's guidance
- superciliously
- arrogantly indifferent
- languidly
- lacking energy
- disconcerted
- taken aback
- repugnant
- offensive and completely unacceptable
- Enigma
- something or someone that's not easily understood
- Affable
- friendly and easy to talk to
- foppish
- a man who's ridiculously concerned with his appearance
- superflous
- more than nescessary
- solicitude
- expressed conern
- Reproof
- the act of criticizing someone for doing something wrong
- Pecuniary
- involving money
- depraved
- morally corrupted
- corpulent
- obese.
- requiem
- a peice of music written to commemorate someone who has died
- Pernicious
- causing great harm
- Mitigation
- to make an offence more excusable
- conflagration
- a large destructive fire
- aberration
- a change from what's normal or desirable