Mid Term Vocab
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- anecdotes
- a short account or story of something often humorous
- sublime
- supreme or outstanding
- dysentery
- an infectious disease of the bowels causing severe diarrhea
- cynical
- distrustful of human nature and motives
- procure
- to seek out; to obtain
- inscathed
- unharmed
- taciturn
- temperamentally disinclined to talk
- gallows
- a wooden frame in which a condemned person is executed by hanging
- quarantine
- strict isolation to prevent the spread of disease
- paternal
- pertaing to a father
- liberated
- to be free from imprisonment
- anti-semitic
- hating jews; relating to anti-semitism
- cryptic
- coded or hidden
- prominent
- leading important or well known
- invectives
- abusive language
- indefatigable
- not capable of being tired
- ration
- a fixed allowance of food
- inventive
- adept at producing inventions
- vengeance
- retalliation or retribution
- expounded
- to explain in elaborate detail
- scullery
- a small room of a pantry or kitchen in which cooking utensils are cleaned and stored
- shirked
- to evade the performance of an obligation
- monocle
- an eyeglass for one eye
- repose
- to lay at rest; temporary rest
- toiled
- to work long and hard
- colossus
- gigantic; powerful; anything colossal
- disinterred
- to take out of the grave or tomb
- conflagration
- a large destructive fire
- lethal
- pertaining to causing death; deadly; fatal
- nimble
- quick