Slusser's Vocab for the 1st Final
Terms
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- demeanor
- the way in which a person behaves
- engendered
- to bring into existence
- garland
- a wreath or festoon
- peevish
- ill tempered, contrary, fractious
- perceive
- to become aware of directly through any of the senses; to apprehend
- presage
- an omen
- suffice
- to meet present needs or requirements
- tarry
-
to delay or be late in going, coming, or doing
to wait
to remain or stay - harmattan
- a dry, dusty wind that blows from teh Sahara to the Atlantic coast of Africa
- improvident
- lacking foresight or thrift
- Kola
- an African tree whose nuts contain caffeine and yield a flavorful extract
- impending
- about to happen, imminent
- intricate
- complex
- cowries
- brightly colored, glossy mollusk shells used as money in Things Fall Apart
- prowess
- bravery, valor, skill
- ultimatum
- a final demand whose rejection ends negotiations and leads to a use of force or other strong action
- potent
- powerful
- imperious
- overbearing, arrogant, domineering
- emissary
- a person sent on a mission
- interim
- a period between, meantime
- capricious
- whimsical, flighty, tending to change suddenly (a.k.a. Nora)
- malevolent
- wishing harm to others
- oracle
- a person or place believed to reveal messages from a god or spirit
- void
- emptiness
- matchet
- machete
- abomination
- something hateful and disgusting
- kite
- a bird of the hawk family
- cassava
- a tropical plant having edible starchy roots
- tendrils
- the threadlike parts of climbing plants
- luxuriant
- lush, teeming, growing abundantly
- tubers
- the thick, fleshy parts of underground stems
- brusqueness
- curtness, rough and abrupt speech
- kindred
- a group of relatives
- benevolent
- wishing good to others
- atone
- to make ammends
- exacting
- strict, demanding
- poignant
- emotionally moving
- ultimate
- final, utmost
- communion
- the act of sharing thoughts and feelings with others
- calabashes
- the dried, hollow shells of a tropical gourd-like fruit, used for bowls
- foo-foo
- an african food made from boiled and mashed yam, cassava or plantain
- tentative
- hesitant, uncertain
- pottage
- a thick soup or stew of vegetables with or without meat
- consoled
- made less sad, comforted
- persistent
- stubborn, persevering, refusing to give up
- grandees
- people of high rank
- prophesied
- predicted, foretold
- entrails
- inner organs, intestines, guts
- feign
- pretend
- harbingers
- persons or things that announce what will follow
- plantains
- tropical banana plants whose coarse fruit is eaten cooked
- raffia
- a palm tree whose leaves yield a fiber used in making baskets, hats, etc.
- coiffure
- hairdo
- spendthrift
- extravagant person
- prodigal
- foolishly generous person
- frivolous
- trivial, silly
- subordinate
- inferior
- squander
- to spend wastefully
- indiscreet
- not wise
- contraband
- illegal goods
- intolerable
- unendurable
- tactless
- undiplomatic
- excruciating
- unbearably painful (Eric with the Big Red wrapper ;))
- impulsive
- hasty
- proclaiming
- declaring
- retribution
- retaliation (nananana)
- disreputable
- dishonorable
- naturalistic
- primitive
- calculation
- cunning
- hypocrite
- poser
- proprieties
- decencies
- bewildered
- confused
- evasions
- avoidances
- grafter
- unscrupulous person
- scholarship
- academic achievement/knowledge
- attainment
- accomplishment
- dullard
- a stupid/unimaginative person (they're dull....)
- nullity
- mere nothing, insignificance
- incantation
- use of spells or verbal charms as part of a magic ritual
- ominous
- foreboding/foreshadowing evil
- firmament
- the sky
- clamor
- noisy shouting
- libation
- a liquid used in ceremonial drinking
- sluice
- floodgate
- austerity
- morally strict act
- poignancy
- the quality of painfully affecting one's feelings
- inordinate
- excessive
- fatuous
- silly, foolish
- avarice
- greed
- thicket
- dense growth of shrubbery or small trees
- prodigy
- extraordinary person, thing or deed
- tumult
- noisy confusion
- impale
- to pierce with a pointed object
- boon
- convivial or sociable
- demolition
- the act of tearing down or breaking into pieces; destruction
- precipitous
- having very steep sides
- appease
- to make peace through concessions
- munificence
- great generosity
- sinister
- singularly evil
- depraved
- marked by evil
- deluge
- outpouring of water
- antediluvian
- before the flood
- interminable
- having/seeming to have no end
- renown
- a state of being widely acclaimed
- redress
- to correct of compensate for a wrong or loss
- discourteous
- impolite
- enmity
- hatred/ill will
- revered
- regarded as worthy of great honor
- chaste
- innocently pure (Berklee, etc.)
- penuriously
- in extreme poverty
- extremity
- great danger or need
- presumption
- attitude or conduct that oversteps the bounds of propriety or courtesy
- contrary
- unfavorable
- disparage
- to speak badly of
- trespass
- to illegally enter property
- arable
- fit for growing crops (Beth, you look like a farmer!)
- prostrate
- stretched out with one's face on the ground, usually in adoration or submission
- humane
- marked by compassion, sympathy or consideration for humans or animals
- compulsory
- mandatory, enforced
- indiscriminately
- randomly, haphazardly
- emaciated
- thin and feeble
- renounce
- to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration
- caprice
- a sudden change of mind because of a whim (goes with capricious)
- tedious
-
tiresome because of length or dullness; boring
C&C classes are NEVER tedious - veer
- to change direction or course
- coercion
- force, repression
- conceive
- to cause to begin, to originate
- warble
- to sing with rapid variations, or changes in pitch
- immobile
- incapable of movement, motionless
- sustain
- to perform actions that keep something in existence