AQWF Vocab
Mrs. Addison's List
Terms
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- Coveted
- greatly desired
- Indigent
- poor, destitute
- Putrefaction
- decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- Onslaught
- vicious assault; fierce attack
- Ostracized
- shut out of society
- Foresight
- seeing ahead
- Console
- give moral or emotional strength to
- Queue
- a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
- Palatial
- luxurious
- Malicious
- wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
- Embittered
- caused to be bitter
- Insatiable
- impossible to satiate or satisfy
- Sympathetic
- showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
- Gangrene
- necrotic tissue
- Laconic
- brief and to the point
- Obliterate
- do away with completely, without leaving a trace
- Mischief
- the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
- Stealthy
- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
- Unison
- occurring together or simultaneously
- Reminiscences
- remembering past experiences
- Debauched
- Corrupt
- Indifferent
- (often followed by 'to') lacking importance
- Superfluous
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- Rations
- food supplies for soldiers
- Infuriated
- marked by extreme anger
- Suffocation
- killing by depriving of oxygen
- Unimpeachably
- without question, faultless
- Martinets
- (n) people in military who demand absolute authority
- Gusto
- zest, relish, great viger (vigor) or liveliness
- Banal
- obvious and dull
- Gamut
- a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions"
- Fatigue
- labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on)
- Helter-Skelter
- with haste, in disorder
- Laudable
- worthy of high praise
- Inapprehensible
- can't understand
- Precipitious
- done rashly
- Tactless
- lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
- Entanglements
- envolvement in a complication
- Calibre
- Quality or the diameter of the bullet or something round
- Renunciation
- rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
- Placate
- To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
- Insubordination
- defiance of authority
- Disiplinarian
- somone who enforces disipline
- Decorum
- propriety in manners and conduct
- Stratagem
- a clever trick used to deceive or outwit
- Non-com
- a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel
- Benediction
- an expression of good wishes
- Penetrate
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- Imperceptible
- impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses
- Zeal
- eager enthusiasm (to a cause or ideal)
- Fatuous
- Idiotic
- Quixotic
- Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
- Obtuse
- blunt, stupid
- Feeble
- lacking strength
- Melancholy
- a feeling of thoughtful sadness
- Vortex
- a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)
- Bombardment
- an attack by dropping bombs
- Discomfiture
- anxious embarrassment
- Stimulate
- cause to do
- Mediators
- person who helps other resolve issues to the satifaction of both parties
- Oblique
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular
- Chattels
- Any property that is not real property, also known as personal property
- Uncanny
- beyond what is natural
- Intervene
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
- Scornfully
- mocking
- Bayonets
- Something attacheted to the end of a gun
- Protrude
- swell or jut outwards
- Idyll
- a carefree episode or experience; a short poem describing a picturesque episode
- Windfall
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- Implacable
- Relentless
- Ill-conceived
- unwell, unkind
- Claustrophobia
- a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space
- Equanimity
- steadiness of mind under stress
- Intolerable
- completely unacceptable
- Canteen
- a flask for carrying water
- Parapet
- fortification consisting of a low wall
- Extenuating
- guilt diminishing
- Inscription
- the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words
- Carbolic
- disinfectants to clean wounds
- Incomprehensible
- difficult to understand
- Instantaneous
- occurring with no delay
- Swoons
- to faint
- Solace
- give moral or emotional strength to
- Diminish
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- Artillery
- large but transportable armament
- Apoplexy
- n. sudden inability to feel or move, caused by the blockage or rupture of an artery in the brain ,
- Chloroform
- a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3)
- Scrutinize
- to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
- Hygenic
- (adj) clean; sanitary
- Aberration
- a disorder in one's mental state
- Fastidious
- possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
- Voracity
- excessive desire to eat
- Perplexing
- lacking clarity of meaning
- Demonstrative
- serving to demonstrate
- Disgruntled
- dissatisfied, displeased, annoyed
- Mutineers
- people who take part in mutiny
- Immaterial
- (often followed by 'to') lacking importance
- Surreptitious
- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
- Saveloy
- a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage
- Consciousness
- an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
- Acrid
- Harshly pungent or bitter.
- Comrade
- a fellow member of the Communist Party
- Fallible
- likely to fail or be inaccurate
- Abstraction
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- Stupor
- state of apathy, daze, lack of awareness
- Lorries
- a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides
- Dementing
- going insane
- Convulsion
- a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval
- Foraging
- the act of searching for food and provisions
- Grudge
- a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
- Tremulous
- (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
- Constraint
- the state of being physically constrained
- Annihilation
- destruction by annihilating something
- Affable
- easy-going; friendly
- Court-martialled
- military court
- Reverberation
- a long, echoing vibration, such as after a bell has rung