Literature Vocabulary 11-26-07
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- Philanthropy
- a charitable act or gift
- Omens
- a happening believed to be a sign of warning of some future event
- Excruciatingly
- causing great mental or physical pain
- Terminal
- a town at the end of a transportation line
- Corpse
- a dead body
- Prosecute
- keep at
- Voluptuous
- giving pleasure to the senses
- Avocation
- customary employment
- Perpetual
- everlasting
- Putrid
- foul
- Academic
- theoretical
- Incandescent
- white or glowing with great heat
- Patron
- a person chosen as a special guardian or supporter
- Perpetual
- continuing forever
- Excruciatingly
- very severe
- Disdain
- a feeling of scorn for something or someone regarded as beneath oneself
- Patron
- one who gives generous support or approval
- Putrid
- morally objectionable
- Philanthropy
- an organization which distributes or is supported by charitable contributions
- Philanthropy
- spirit of good will towards all people especially when expressed in active or generous efforts to help others
- Putrid
- rotten
- Artillery
- a branch of an army armed with firearms
- Terminal
- occuring at the end of a period or series
- Terminal
- freight or passenger station that serves a large area or acts as a junction between lines
- Terminal
- growing at the end of a branch or stem
- Arsenal
- a collection of weapons
- Terminal
- forming an end
- Patron
- a person who buys the goods or uses the services offered
- Academic
- literary or general rather than technical
- Subliminally
- not strong enough to produce a sensation or a mental awareness
- Nocturnal
- occuring at night
- Paranoia
- a tendency toward being overly suspicious and distrustful
- Incandescent
- lightbulb
- Terminal
- leading finally to death
- Prevarications
- lie
- Terminal
- a part that forms an end
- Artillery
- large firearms
- Epic
- long or great in size or score
- Arsenal
- a place for the manufacture or storage of firearms
- Antagonistic
- showing the state of being opposed to something or unfriendly toward someone
- Avocation
- an activity one engages with one another for enjoyment rather than as a job
- Demented
- mad
- Subsidize
- to aid or furnish with a gift of money
- Paranoia
- a serious mental disorder marked especially by feelings of persecution or an exaggerated sense of ones own importance usually without hallucinations
- Vile
- morally bad
- Vile
- physically ugly
- Perpetual
- occuring continually
- Academic
- of or relating to school or college
- Primate
- a bishop or archbishop of the highest rank in a district, nation, or church
- Disdain
- to reject or refuse because of scorn
- Terminal
- a device used for data entry and display
- Compulsive
- caused by or subject to an irresistible urge
- Commemorative
- intended to remember a person, thing, or event
- Academic
- having no practical importance
- Demented
- insane
- Erosion
- the action or process of wearing away
- Perpetual
- constant
- Secrete
- to produce and give off a substance
- Terminal
- either end of a transportation line with its offices and freight and passsenger stations
- Epic
- long poem telling of the deeds of a hero
- Subliminally
- existing or functioning below the level of conscious awareness
- Vile
- very or completely bad
- Vile
- of little worth
- Secrete
- to deposit or conceal a hiding place
- Primate
- any of an order of mammals that are characterized by hands and feet that grasp a relatively large complex brain and vision in which objects are seen in three dimensions and that includes human beings, apes, monkeys, and related forms
- Disdain
- to look with scorn on
- Artillery
- cannons and rockets
- Terminal
- occuring in a term or each term
- Terminal
- a device attached to the end of a wire or cable to electrical equipment for making connections
- Prosecute
- to carry on a legal action against an accused person to prove his or her guilt
- Nocturnal
- active at night
- Prosecute
- to follow up to the end