Vocab Unit 1
First vocab list Motel of Mysteries
Terms
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- condescend
- to descend to the level of one considered inferior; to patronize
- myth
- A traditional story dealing with a supernatural
- pestilence
- usually a fatal epidemic or disease, especially doubonic plague
- abode
- a dwelling place, a home
- cataclysmic
- a violent upheavel that causes great destruction or brings change
- diligent
- marked by perservering, painstaking effort
- resplendent
- splendid or dazzeling in appearance; brilliant
- incarnation
- a bodily manifestion of a supernatural being
- solder
- any of various fusible alloys; usually tin and lead used to join metallic parts
- itinerant
- traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty
- reverie
- a state of abstracted musing; daydreaming
- deluge
- a great flood, heavy downpour
- archaic
- relating to a characteristic much earlier or more primative
- satire
- a literary work in which humor, vice, or folly is attacked through irony, derision and wit
- somber
- dark, gloomy; dull or dark in color
- ominous
- menacing, threatening
- succumb
- to submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire
- reckoning
- the act of counting or computing
- diversified
- to give a variety; to vary; to extend into disporate fields
- hovel
- a small miserable dwelling
- archetype
- an original model or type which similar ones are made after
- mediocre
- moderate or inferior quality
- mete
- to distribute by or as if by measure;to allot, to apportion
- alloted
- to parcel out, distribute, or apportion
- secular
- relating to worldly things
- onslaught
- a violent attack; an overwhelming outpouring
- amiable
- friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likeable
- consign
- to give over to the care of another; entrust
- abyss
- an immeasurly deep chasm depth, or void
- oratory
- the art of public speaking
- curt
- using brief or abrupt, as in speech or manner
- lamentation
- outward expression of grief
- transgression
- a violation of the law, command, or duty
- divinity
- a state or quality of being holy
- folktale
- A story or legend forming some sort of oral history