Golden Compass Vocabulary
Golden Compass Vocabulary for the Exam
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- Incessant
- continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending
- Dowdy
- not stylish; drab; old-fashioned
- Agog
- highly excited by eagerness, curiosity, anticipation, etc.
- Bludgeon
- a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.b
- Heresy
- opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, esp. of a church or religious system.
- Pedantic
- ostentatious in one's learning.
- Drone
- to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz.
- Perpetual
- continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- Evanescent
- vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
- Uncanny
- having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
- Vigilance
- state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness
- Crucible
- a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures.
- Despondency
- state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection.
- Reprove
- to prove again.
- Impassive
- without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- Stolid
- not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- Mercenary
- working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- Inscrutable
- incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- Chastise
- to discipline, esp. by corporal punishment.
- Languid
- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow
- Incredulity
- the quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe.
- Sanguine
- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
- Infernal
- hellish; fiendish; diabolical
- Seer
- a person who sees; observer.
- Vertigo
- a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.
- Captor
- a person who has captured a person or thing.
- Placid
- pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed
- Repugnant
- distasteful, objectionable, or offensive
- Inconspicuous
- not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent.
- Soporific
- causing or tending to cause sleep.
- Pallid
- pale; faint or deficient in color; wan
- Renegade
- a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
- Fledgling
- a young bird just fledged, an inexperienced person.
- Clamber
- to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty.
- Sardonic
- characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering