Siddhartha Vocabulary 2
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- Ascertain
- To discover with certanity, as through examination or experimentation
- Benefaction
- A charitable gift or deed: good will
- Castigation
- A severe scolding or verbal punishment
- Disheveled
- Marked by disorder, untidy, being in loose disarray and unkempt appearance
- Jocular
- Given to joking and good humor
- Aberration
- a departure from the normal or typical; disorder of abnormal alteration in one's mental state
- Ablution
- A washing or cleansing of the body, expecially as part of a relgious rite
- Mendicant
- Depending on alms for a living; a beggar (ascetic)
- Propriety
- Conformity to prevailing customs and usages
- Venerable
- Worthy of reverence; commanded respect because of age, dignity, character, or position
- Covetousness
- Marked by extreme desire to acquire or possess (root word: covet...duh!)
- Indolence
- Habitual laziness; sloth.
- Lithe
- Readily bent and supple; marked by efortless grace
- Peevish
- Easily irritate or annoyed
- Satiety
- The condition of being full or gratified beyond the point of satisfaction
- Voluptuary
- A person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures
- Hedonist
- Pursuit or devotion to pleasure. Behavior that is motivated by desire/pleasure
- Ascetic
- A person who renounces material comforts and leads an life of austere self-discipline
- Epicurean
- A devotee to sensuous and luxurious living
- Malevolent
- Having an evil or hamrful influence; malicious
- Obliterate
- To do away with completely so as to leave no trace
- Surfeit
- To overindulge
- Imbued
- Inspiried or influenced thoroughly; saturated
- Admonition
- cautionary advice or warning
- Belatedly
- Having been delayed, done or sent too late
- Contemptuously
- Doing something in a manner which is scornful
- Follies
- A lack of good sense, understanding, foresight, or a foolish action
- Plantain
- The fruit of a tree from Southeast Asia, that resembles a banana
- Tenuous
- Long and thin, slender; little substance
- Avaricious
- Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy
- Penitent
- Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins
- Sojourn
- To reside temporarily; to stay for a brief period of time
- Unassailable
- Impossible to dispute or disprove; undeniable
- Ardent
- Expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; strong enthusiams/devotion
- Copious
- Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply
- Privataions
- Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life
- Corpus
- A large collection of writings of a specific kind or subject
- Infused
- To fill or cuse ot be filled by something; steep or soak; pour
- Imbibe
- To drink; to absorb or take in as if by drinking; to absorb into the mind
- Ingest
- To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption
- Flaccid
- Lacking firmness, resilience, or muscle tone
- Turgid
- Excessively ornate or complex in style/language; swollen or distended from fluid or bloated
- Sublime
- Charcterized by nobility; majestic; supreme
- Accord
- To bring to conform or agree; to bestow upon
- Fruition
- Realization of something desired or worked for; accomplishment; enjoyment derived from use or possession
- Resounding
- To make a loud sound; to become famous, celebrated, or extolled
- Vocation
- A regular occupation, one which a person is well suited for