English H Vocab Finals
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- Sword of Damocles
- an impending disaster or threat of a calamitous happening
- mesmerize
- to spellbind, to fascinate
- Iaconic
- using speech sparingly, saying only what was vital to communication
- Achilles' heel
- an especially vulnerable
- mercurial
- swift; changeable
- peripatetic
- to walk about
- guillotine
- a very sharp blade that was used to behead people.
- roentgen
- a measure of radiation
- tantalize
- to torment, tease by heightening expectations that cannot be reached or attained
- argonaut
- adventurer, someone a quest to find a thing of great value which ultimately leads to great danger
- Kafkaesuqe
- surrealism
- euthanasia
- a good death
- bedlam
- a place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion
- Parthian shot
- to make a sharp telling remark or point as one is leaving
- babble
- unintelligible language, gibberish, or confusion of sounds or voices
- hades
- hellish or extremely difficult
- stoicism
- those who are able to endure grief or pain without complaining or demonstrating emotion
- quixotic
- impractically idealistic or foolishly chivalrous
- rodomontade
- pretentious cockiness, empty boasting
- Utopia
- epitomized perfection-in lawy, politics, social conventions, etc.
- marathon
- any long contest with endurance as the primary factor
- maudlin
- crying at the slightest provocation, overly sentimental
- cupidity
- inordinate desire, an excessive eagerness, especially to gain material wealth
- halcyon
- calm, peaceful, prosperous, carefreee, joyous, and tranquil
- boycott
- to join in person or group
- caesarean section
- a method of delivery that removes the fetus from the mother's uterus by cutting through the abdominal walls and the uterus
- Sisyphean
- requiring continued effort oftentimes without results that can justify the resources put that that effort
- mnemonics
- assisting or intended to assist memory
- narcissism
- excessive love or admiration for oneself
- Halloween
- All Saints' Day
- stentorian
- those who have loud deep, resonating voices
- sybarite
- a person devoted to luxury, opulence, and pleasure in general
- tarantella
- a dance made up of whirling steps and lively music
- limbo
- a condition of oblivion or neglect
- panacea
- a cure-all, a remedy for all ills
- solecism
- an incorrect use of language
- shylock
- a lender of money at unlawfully exorbitant interest rates
- epicure
- connoisseurs having cultivated a refined taste for the arts and culinary pursuits
- Lilliputian
- small; being petty or narrow
- gargantuan
- of enormous, gigantic size or proportion
- Pandora's box
- all-gifted
- tenebrous
- darkness; gloomy
- flora and fauna
- vegetation of all kinds
- procrustean
- an arbitrary standard to which conformity is forced; no regard for individual differences
- philippic
- any strong verbal denunciation characterized by bitter invective
- bowlderize
- to expurgate;to edit by prudishly omitting parts considered indelicate
- plutocracy
- wealth; rule or power
- somniloquy
- talking in one's sleep
- herculean
- extraordinary strength, unstincting courage, and gargantuan size
- galvanize
- to arouse to awareness or action
- myrmidon
- a person who executes his master's orders without scruple
- billingstate
- the use of coarse and vulgar language
- tawdry
- cheap, showy, and lacking in good taste
- Pharisee
- people who are self-righteous or hypocritical; sanctimonious
- Pollyanna
- a fool who is so dotingly optimistic and not see a dark side to human nature
- Vandal
- mischievous or malicious destruction or damage to property
- Byzantine
- intricate art form made up of huge domes and intricate spires and minarets
- gorgon
- terrible; an ugly, mean, repulsive woman, an absolutely terrible person
- calliope
- a keyboard instrument using steam to power whistles that play musical notes
- odyssey
- any series of wanderings or journeys that put the traveler in situations of extreme hardship and noteworthy experiences
- titan
- a person or thing of colossal dimensions, strength, or influence
- apochrypha
- doubtal accuracy
- protean
- changeableness
- draconian
- harsh and pitilessly severe
- Cassandra
- a person who prophesies doom or disaster; one utters unheeded prophecies
- Junoesque
- stately bearing, a beauty that is both imposing and esthetic
- pander
- to provide gratification for another's desires
- stygian
- a sense of infernal gloom
- jacquard
- fabric is elaborately designed as in a brocade, a heavy cloth with a raised design
- colossus
- anything of gigantic size or power