ROSS vocab (not grammar)
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- unwiedly
- not wiedly with difficulty; not readily handeled or managed in use or action, as from size, shape, or weight, awkward; ungainly
- stolid
- not easily stirred or moved; mentally unemotional; impassive
- writhe
- to twist, the body or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.
- heresy
- a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
- incessant
- continuing without interruption; ceasless; unending
- seer
- someone who sees; overseer
- lurid
- gruesome, horrible, revolting
- captor
- a person who has captured a person or a thing
- impassive
- without emotion; apathetic; unmoved
- imperious
- domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing
- reprove
- to prove again
- phantasmagoria
- a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances as in a dream or as created by the imagination
- infernal
- hellish; fiendish; diabolical
- incredulity
- unwillingness to believe
- crucible
- a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures
- innocuous
- not harmful or injurious; harmless
- bivouac
- a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelfter or protection from enemy fire
- placid
- pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed
- soporific
- causing or tending to cause sleep
- bludgeon
- to beat someone w/ a club
- abate
- to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish
- sanguine
- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
- plume
- a feather
- clamber
- to climb, using both feet and hands; climb w/ effort or difficulty
- inconspicuous
- not noticable or prominent
- agog
- highly excited by eagerness, anticipation, curiosity, anticipation, etc.
- fledging
- a young bird just about to leave the nest
- virtigo
- a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings
- formidable
- causing fear, apprehension, or dread
- inscrutable
- incapable of being investigated, anazlyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable
- dowdy
- not stylish; drab; old-fashioned
- chastise
- to discipline, especially by corporal punishment
- pedantic
- ostentatious (really care about) in one's learning
- languid
- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow
- facade
- the face or front of a building
- haughty
- disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supericilious
- drone
- the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey
- despondency
- depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection
- renegade
- a person who deserts a party or cause for another
- perpetual
- continuing or enduring forever; everlasting (think my violin song "perpetual motion" that goes on and on)
- mercenary
- working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal
- vigilance
- watchfullness
- pallid
- pale; faint or deficient in color; wan
- uncanny
- having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary
- zenith
- the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer
- repugnant
- distasteful, objectionable, or offensive
- sardonic
- characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering
- evanescent
- vanishing; fading away; fleeting
- burnish
- to polish a surface by friction (make shiny)