Unit 1
Terms
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- vignette
- (n.) a short description or sketch, a decorative design on the title page of a book or and the begining or end of a chapter
- hierarchy
- (n.) a system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth. class, etc.
- raillery
- (n.) good- humored ridicule; teasing
- proselyte
- (n.) a convert, a disciple
- adjunct
- (n.) something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or charastic (adj.) added or connected in a subordinate capacity
- ribald
- (adj.) irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language
- fait accompli
- (n.) an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action
- effet
- (adj.) lakcing in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted' steril or unable to produce; out- of- date
- bellwether
- (n.) the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends
- chimerical
- (adj.) absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible
- liturgy
- (n.) the form of a ritual or other act of public worship
- poltroon
- (n.) a base coward
- supine
- (adj.) lying flat on one's back; listless or lethargic
- hidebound
- (adj.) narrow- minded and rigid, stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative
- morass
- (n.) a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped
- quasi
- (adj.) resembeling but not actually being; seeminly but not actually or completely
- noisome
- (adj.) offensive or disgusting; foul- smelling; harmful or injurous
- obilvious
- (adj.) forgetful; unaware
- caterwaul
- (v.) to howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; (n.) a harsh or noisy cry; a racket
- mirage
- (n.) something illusory, without substance, and illusion