Lit Vocab 2
Terms
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- boon
- convivial or sociable
- penuriously
- in severe poverty
- dullard
- a stupid or unimaginative person
- chaste
- innocent; pure
- firmament
- sky
- interminable
- having or seeming to have no end
- prodigy
- extraordinary person, thing, or deed
- inordinate
- excessive
- renown
- a state of being widely acclaimed
- extremity
- great danger or need
- poignancy
- the quality of painfully affecting one's feelings
- revered
- regarded as worthy of great honor
- scholarship
- academic achievement or knowledge
- stealthily
- slowly and secretely
- enmity
- hatred or ill will
- covenant
- a formal, solemn, and binding agreement
- attainment
- accomplishment
- incantation
- use of spells or verbal charms as part of a magic ritual
- impale
- to pierce with a pointed object
- avarice
- greed
- debar
- to shut out or exclude from doing something
- glean
- to pick up or gather grain left on the field after the reaping
- presumption
- attitude or conduct that oversteps the bounds of propriety or courtesy
- ominous
- forboding or foreshadowing evil
- prostrate
- to throw oneself face downward on the ground as a gesture of humility or submission
- thicket
- dense growth of shrubbery or small trees
- precipitous
- having very steep sides
- fatuous
- silly, foolish
- redress
- to crrect or compensate for a wrong or loss
- nullity
- a mere nothing; insignificance
- tumult
- noisy confusion
- sinister
- singularly evil; meanacing
- discourteous
- impolite
- contrary
- unfavorable
- austerity
- a spiritual, morally strict act
- depraved
- marked by evil
- munificence
- great generosity
- sluice
- floodgate
- winnow
- to separate the grain from the chaff
- libation
- a liquid used in ceremonial drinking
- appease
- to make peace with through concessions
- clamor
- noisy shouting
- demolition
- act of tearing down or breaking to pieces; destruction