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Vocabulary lists
Terms
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- catacomb
- an underground gallery forming a burial place
- squalor
- a filthy and wretched condition
- chastisment
- punishment
- sterility
- sterile conditions; barrenness
- churlish
- rude or surly; bad-tempered
- hoary
- white or gray with age; ancient
- ascertain
- find out for certain by trial and research; make sure of
- draught/ draft
- a single act of drinking; amount taken in a single drink
- fathom
- get to the bottom of; understand fully
- gesticulation
- a making of lively or excited gestures
- convulsive
- resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent
- quaff
- drink in large swallows
- perceptible
- able to be perceived
- temerity
- reckless boldness; rashness; foolhardiness
- surly
- bad-tempered and unfriendly; gruff
- virulence
- quality of being very poisonous or harmful; intense bitterness or spite
- protract
- draw out; lengthen in time; prolong
- epemeral
- lasting for only a very short time; transitory
- definitive
- that decides or settles a question; conclusive final
- pall
- a heavy. dark cloth spread over a coffin; a dark, gloomy covering
- blight
- disease that causes pants to wither and die; anything that causes destruction and ruin
- vagabond
- and idle wanderer; tramp; vagrant
- accomplice
- a person who knowingly aides another person in the committing of a crime
- sucease
- end; cessation
- azure
- sky blue
- propitiate
- prevent or reduce the anger of; appease
- Ill-gotten
- acquired by evil or unfair means; dishonestly obtained
- ocular
- of or having to do with the eye
- shroud
- a cloth in which a dead body is wrapped for burial
- genteel
- belonging or suited to polite society; fashionable; elegant
- supposition
- belief; opinion; act or supposing
- sepulcher
- a burial tomb
- irrepressible
- that cannot be restrained; uncontrollable
- opprobrium
- disgrace or reproach caused by shameful conduct; scorn
- sconce
- bracket projecting from a wall used to hold a candle or other light
- expedient
- helping to bring about a desired result
- lattice
- structure of crossed wooden strips with spaces between them
- reverie
- dreamy thoughts; dreamy thinking or pleasant things
- cupola
- a small dome or tower on a roof
- puerile
- foolish for a grown person to say to do; childish
- audacity
- reckless daring. boldness, presumtion
- undulate
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- Termagant
- a violent, quarreling, scolding woman
- dirge
- a funeral song or tune
- contrive
- plan with cleverness or skill
- accost
- approach and speak to first
- philanthropy
- love of humanity shown by practical kindness and helpfulness
- facade
- the face or front of a building
- pule
- cry in a thin voice; whimper, whine
- connoisseur
- a critical judge of art or in matters or expert taste
- redress
- set right; repair remedy
- restive
- restlessly impatient, obstinately resisting control
- prevalent
- in general use; widespread; predominant
- indignation
- anger at something unworthy, unjust, or unfair
- consummate
- in the highest degree; complete; perfect
- disposition
- one's habitual ways of acting or of thinking about things
- Testy
- easily irritated; impatient; petulant
- implore
- beg or pray earnestly
- predispose
- given an inclination or tendency to; make susceptible
- promiscuous
- mixed and in disorder
- retribution
- a deserved punishment
- alarcrity
- brisk and eager action; willingness
- impunity
- freedom for punishment consequences
- irresolute
- unable to make up one's mind
- obsequious
- polite or obedient from hope of gain or fear; fawning
- Panoply
- complete equipment or covering; a splendid array
- penitent
- sorry for sinning or doing wrong
- scourge
- whip; punish severely; torment
- bane
- cause of death, ruin or harm
- copulent
- large of bulk of body; fat
- witticism
- a witty or cleverly humorous remark
- detrimental
- causing loss or damage; harmful
- Ostenation
- A showing off; a display intended to impress others
- expiate
- pay the penalty of; make amends for a wrong; atone for
- didactic
- intended to instruct; inclined to instruct others
- capitulate
- surrender on certain terms or conditions
- unalterable
- not capable of being changed or altered
- proselyte
- person who has been converted from on religious opinion to another
- protuberance
- part that sticks out; bulge; swelling
- inimitable
- impossible to imitate or copy
- virtuoso
- person skilled in the techniques of art, especially a musical instrument
- abscond
- go away hurriedly and secretly, especially to avoid punishment
- celibacy
- unmarried state; single life
- immolate
- kill as a sacrifice
- epoch
- period of time; era
- turbulent
- causing disorder; unruly; violent; stormy
- sobriquet
- nickname
- interpose
- put between; insert
- Pretension
- claim; a doing of things for show or to make a fine appearance
- speculate
- think carefully; meditate; consider
- communion
- act of sharing; a close exchange or spiritual relationship
- effuse
- pour out
- insufferable
- intolerable; inbearable
- parsimony
- extreme economy; stinginess
- concerted
- arranged by agreement; planned or made together
- combustibility
- flammability
- myriad
- a very great number; countless; innumerable
- beguiling
- tricking or misleading; entering; amusing
- enfranchise
- give the rights of citizenship to, especially the right to vote
- importune
- ask urgently or repeatedly