Durham vocab 3
Terms
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- esthetic/aesthetic/aestheticism
- concerned w/beauty or the appreciation of beauty
- paradoxical/paradox/paradoxically
- seemingly absurd or self-contradictory
- infelicitous/infelicitously
- unfortunate; inappropriate
- mythopoeia
- the making of fables or legends
- carte blanche
- complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best
- cozen
- to trick or deceive
- lascivious/lasciviousness
- feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire
- nostrum
- a medicine, esp. one that is not considered effective, prepared by an unqualified person
- emetic
- causing vomiting
- trepidation
- a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen
- titular
- holding or constituting a purely formal position or title w/o any real authority
- fey/feyman
- giving an impression of vague unworldliness
- gratuitous/gratuity
- uncalled for; lacking good reason
- wroth
- angry
- requite/requital
- to make appropriate return for; reward
- bane/baneful
- a cause of great distress or annoyance
- vociferate/vociferated/vociferation
- shout, complain
- expostulate/expostulating/expostulation
- express strong disapproval or disagreement
- benignity/benign
- kindness or tolerance towards others
- apostate/apostasy
- a person who abandons a religious or political belief or principle
- wassail
- spiced ale or mulled wine drunk furing celebrations for Twelfth Night and Christmas Eve
- assail
- to make a concerted or violent attack on