Vocab #14
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- archipelago
- an island group
- threnody
- a song, speech, poem, or lamentation, esp, for the dead
- jaundiced
- showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste
- misanthrope
- hater of mankind
- bilious
- extremely unpleasant or distasteful; relating to bile or an excess secretion of bile
- deity
- god
- gelid
- icy, very cold
- sloven
- careless or slipshod
- insurgent
- a rebel
- fastidious
- excessively critical or demanding
- restive
- restless
- mulatto
- a person who racial ancestry is mixed Negro and Caucasian
- antistrophe
- follows a strophe and the chorus moves from left to right
- macabre
- gruesome, grim ghastly; pertaining to or representing death
- diffident
- lacking confidence in oneself
- drayman
- the driver of a dray-- a strong cart for carrying heavy loads
- pompadour
- a hair style that is raised up in the front
- genuflect
- to bend the knee in reverence or worship
- prolific
- characterized by abundant productivity
- abatement
- the state of being decreased or diminished
- solicitous
- concerned or anxious
- strophe
- the part of an ancient Greek chorual ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left
- ameliorate
- to improve
- epiphany
- the sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature of somethign
- satiety
- the state of being satisfied fully (from the verb to sate)
- moirai
- individual destinies
- arabesque
- an elaborate design- a for of ornamentation in art and music