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- epiphany
- the sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature of things
- sloven
- careless or slipshod adj. is slovenly
- drayman
- the driver of a dray-- a strong cart for carrying heavy loads
- solicitous
- anxious or concerned
- satiety
- the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
- genuflect
- bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
- strophe
- right-to-left ,one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama
- mulatto
- an offspring of a Black and a White parent
- ameliorate
- to improve or better
- abatement
- a decrease or reduction of something undesirable
- deity
- A god, goddess, or divine person.
- bilious
- extremely unpleasant or distasteful, relating to bile
- diffident
- lacking self-confidence
- macabre
- [adj] ghastly, shocking, gruesome, suggesting death or decay
- fastidious
- excessively critical or demanding
- prolific
- abundant productivity
- jaundiced
- showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste
- archipelago
- a group of islands- the BVIs are an archipelago
- arabesque
- an elaborate design- a form of ornamentation in art/music
- pompadour
- a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead
- threnody
- a poem, speech for the dead; a funeral song
- insurgent
- a rebel
- gelid
- extremely cold; icy.
- antistrophe
- left- to -right , the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama
- restive
- restless, impatient
- misanthrope
- person who hates mankind
- moirai
- individual destinies- singular form is Moire(the will of the gods/fate)