English 2 Granzyk Vocab
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- Autocratic
- the rule of one; overbearing
- Canted
- slanted at an angle (as in a window that opens on an angle)
- Incandescence
- shining or glowing brightly
- Sanctioned
- approved
- Perused
- (archaic -- to read carefully) currently, to look over more casually
- Tremulous
- trembling
- Simp
- also archaic, a not very intelligent person, short for simpleton
- Finite
- bounded by limits
- Mullioned
- the crisscross pattern of wood strips that hold windowpanes in place
- Portentous
- ominous, conveying the sense of impending, grave events
- Dissembled
- past tense of to deceive -- deceived
- Cynical
- completely distrusting and suspicious of most people & social institutions
- disillusionment
- an emotionally wrenching loss of some belief or false notion
- beatniks
- a counter-cultural group of the American 50s, epitomized by writers like Jack Kerouac (On the Road) & Allen Ginsberg (poet)
- cudgel
- to beat
- sedately
- serenely, calmly
- credulity
- naivete, too ready to believe or trust
- dissemble
- to disguise
- banality
- common, ordinary, and therefore dull
- exotic
- unusual, mysteriously attractive
- talismanic
- having a magical effect, as if from some charmed object, a talisman
- sachet
- a small bag or pouch filled with sweet smelling substances (like perfume)
- runnels
- streams
- remonstrations
- protests, rebukes
- lewd
- adjective, of a sexual nature
- sadism
- the act of taking pleasure in brutality toward another
- gesticulated
- to gesture very demonstratively
- orthodox
- the established beliefs, in this context referring to a more conservative Judaism
- supplant
- to take the place of something else
- insatiable
- adjective, impossible to satisfy
- pogrom
- a government-sponsored, official program of discrimination, even violence, against Jews