Age of Innocence
Terms
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- Capitally
- in an excellent manner; admirably
- Trenchant
- forceful, effective, and vigorous; caustic; cutting
- Contrivances
- deceitful schemes cleverly designed to conceal or evade
- Insinuate
- to suggest something by subtle, artful, even devious means
- Adipose
- fatty; composed of animal fat
- Repartee
- witty conversation
- Coquetry
- flirtation; dalliance
- Tenuous
- flimsy; thin and lacking in substance
- Intrepid
- courageous, brave; dauntless, audacious
- Bedraggled
- wet and limp; soiled, as if having been dragged through mud
- Sultriness
- humidity and heat, literally and/or sexually
- Lumbering
- heavily awkward or cumbersome; characterized by a lumbering walk or gait
- Obdurate
- hardened against feeling
- Remonstrate
- to reason or plead in protest
- Probity
- complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness
- Duplicity
- deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; double-dealing; the state of being two-faced or double
- Precipice
- the brink of a dangerous situation; a cliff or overhang of steep rock
- Expiate
- to make amends for; to atone for
- Platitude
- a trite or banal comment or statement expressed as if it were original and significant
- Clandestine
- secretive, as if to conceal something illicit or improper
- Fraught (with)
- filled with or charged with something, usually of a distressing nature
- Undulations
- a series of waves
- Ineffably
- in a manner that is beyond expression and language
- Tenacity
- persistent determination
- Prostrated
- reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation (literally face down)
- Ubiquitous
- omnipresent
- Ultramarine
- a vivid or strong blue to purplish blue; characteristic of lapis lazuli
- Apoise
- balanced
- Conciliatory
- characterized by an attempt to regain friendship or goodwill; aiming at reconciliation
- Philippic
- verbal denunciation characterized by harsh, often insulting language
- Vicarious
- experienced indirectly, through imagining others' experience
- Listless
- lethargic; lacking energy, disinclined to effort
- Collective
- as an assembled whole
- Conspicuously
- in a manner that is highly noticeable and obvious
- Querulous
- complainingly peevish; grumblingly argumentative
- Conjugal
- marital; relating to marriage
- Inexorably
- unrelentingly; in a manner that is not subject to change or persuasion
- Propinquity
- nearness, proximity; kinship
- Exactions
- excessive or unjust demands or requirements
- Muslin
- any of various sturdy cotton fabrics, often with a coarse weave
- Ermine
- the pelt or fur of a weasel
- Countenance
- to condone; to give approval to
- Extricate
- to release from an entanglement or difficulty
- Bedizened
- ornamented or dressed in a showy, gaudy manner
- Vicissitudes
- sudden, unexpected changes or shifts in one's life or experience
- Impecunious
- penniless, lacking money; poor
- Dissimulation
- concealment of the truth about a situation
- Blowsy
- having a coarsely ruddy or bloated appearance; unkempt and disheveled
- Detachment
- lack of emotional engagement
- Opulently
- richly, abundantly
- Inopportune
- ill-timed
- Sables
- the pelt or fur of a sable, a carnivorous mammal of northern Europe and Asia
- Languid
- lacking energy, vitality, vigor, and force
- Triteness
- the condition of lacking power to evoke interest due to overuse or repetition; the state of being hackneyed
- Aloof
- emotionally or physically remote or distant
- Prevarications
- evasions of the truth; lies
- Inscrutably
- in a manner that is incapable of being understood, fathomed, or interpreted
- Onerous
- burdensome
- Lucidity
- clarity; transparent intelligibility
- Sohd
- wearing shoes
- Venerated
- regarded with respect or reverence
- Solicitude
- care or concern, as for the well-being of another
- Conjectures
- inferences based upon limited or inconclusive evidence; guesses
- Chinchilla
- the pale gray fur or pelt of the animal of the same name
- Dilettante
- a dabbler in an art or field of knowledge
- Glibly
- performed with a natural, offhand ease; showing little thought, preparation, or concern; marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, superficiality, or deceitfulness
- Tacitly
- in an unspoken manner
- Efficacious
- capable of producing the desired efect
- Venerable
- commanding respect by virtue of age, experience, character, and/or position
- Vagaries
- an extravagant or erratic notion or action
- Perspicacity
- acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding
- Tepid
- lukewarm; lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm
- Parvenu
- pertaining to a recent rise in wealth or position, often accompanied by a lack of acceptance into the new class
- Incorrigibly
- hopelessly; irredeemably; insuppressibly; incapable of being reformed
- Inculcate
- to teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate
- Cynical
- believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiely by base or selish concerns; selfishly or callously calculating; expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity
- Sedulously
- in a manner that perseveres through all obstacles or dificulties
- Felicity
- happiness
- Baleful
- ominous; harmful or malignant
- Indignant
- characterized by anger at a perceived injustice