Alas Babylon Vocabulary
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- Capitulation
- the act of surrenduring or giving up
- Echelon
- A formation of troops in which each unit is positioned successively to the left or right of the rear unit to form an oblique or step like line
- Respite
- a usually short interval of rest or relief
- Saturnine
- Having or marked by a tendency to be bitter
- Solicitous
- Anxious or concerned
- Retroactive
- Influencing or applying to a period prior to enanctment
- Tier
- A rank or class
- decedent
- a deceased person
- Dour
- marked by sterness or harshness
- Pugnacious
- Combative in natire; belligerent
- Precocious
- ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematuraly ripe or develoved.
- Assimilate
- To make similar; cause to resemble
- Moratorium
- an authorization to a debtor, such as a bank or nation, permitting temporary suspensions of payments.
- Reprisal
- retaliation for an injury with the intent of inflicting at least as mush injury in return.
- Gregarious
- Seeking and enjoying the company of others
- Noxious
- Harmful to living things ; injurious to health
- Idyllic
- Simple and carefree
- Irascible
- Prone to outbursts of temper; easily angered.
- Exhilarate
- to cause to feel happily refreshed and energetic
- Miasma
- a noxious atmosphere or influence
- Imperative
- Expressing a command or plea; peremptory
- Immutable
- not capable or susceptible of change
- Catalyst
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something that causes an important event to happen; "the invasion acted as a catalyst to unite the country"
- Implacable
- impossible to placate or appease
- Fastidious
- possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail
- Maelstrom
- a violent or turbulent situation
- Incongruous
- lacking harmony; incompatible
- Redundant
- exceeding what is necessary or natural
- Volatile
- Tending to violence; explosive
- To deter
- to prevent or discourage from acting , as by means of fear or doubt
- Capricious
- characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable
- Alleviate
- to make (pain for example) more bearable
- To Retaliate
- to return like for like , especially evil for evil.
- Chivalrous
- having qualities of gallantry an honor attributed to an ideal knight