Golden Compass Vocab
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- Placid (adj)
- pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed
- Imperious (adj)
- domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing
- Repugnant (adj)
- distasteful, objectionable, or offensive
- Plume (noun)
- a feather
- Dowdy (adj)
- not stylish; drab; old-fashioned
- Languid (adj)
- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow
- Impassive (adj)
- without emotion; apathetic; unmoved
- Agog (adj)
- Highly excited by eagerness, curiosity, anticipation
- Façade (noun)
- the front of a building, esp. an imposing or decorative one
- Heresy (noun)
- opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, esp. of a church or religious system.
- Unwieldy (adj)
- not wieldy; wielded with difficulty; not readily handled or managed in use or action, as from size, shape, or weight; awkward; ungainly
- Mercenary (adj)
- working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal
- Phantasmagoria (noun)
- a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination
- Fledgling (noun)
- a young bird just fledged, an inexperienced person.
- Zenith (noun)
- the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer
- Incredulity (noun)
- The quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe
- Perpetual (adj)
- continuing or enduring forever; everlasting
- Infernal (adj)
- hellish; fiendish; diabolical
- Reprove (verb)
- to criticize or correct, esp. gently
- Renegade (noun)
- a person who deserts a party or cause for another
- Sardonic (adj)
- characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering
- Chastise (verb)
- To discipline, esp. by corporal punishment.
- Formidable (adj)
- causing fear, apprehension, or dread
- Burnish (verb)
- to polish (a surface) by friction
- Uncanny (adj)
- having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary
- Captor (noun)
- a person who has captured a person or thing
- Clamber (verb)
- to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty
- Pedantic (adj)
- ostentatious in one's learning
- Lurid (adj)
- gruesome; horrible; revolting
- Vigilance (noun)
- state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness
- Sanguine (adj)
- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
- Stolid (adj)
- not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive
- Seer (noun)
- a person who prophesies future events; prophet. A person who sees; observer
- Drone (verb)
- to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz
- Inconspicous (adj)
- not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent
- Incessant (adj)
- continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending
- Evanescent (adj)
- vanishing; fading away; fleeting
- Abate (verb)
- to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish
- Pallid (adj)
- pale; faint or deficient in color; wan
- Inscrutable (adj)
- incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable
- Vertigo (noun)
- a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.
- Bivouac (noun)
- a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- Soporific (adj)
- causing or tending to cause sleep
- Writhe (verb)
- to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort
- Innocuous (adj)
- not harmful or injurious; harmless
- Bludgeon (noun)
- a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other
- Haughty (adj)
- disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious
- Crucible (noun)
- a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures.
- Despondency (noun)
- state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection.