E2H - Brown, Brand, Rappaccini Vocab
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- indefatigable
- showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality
- deleterious
- harmful to living things
- venomous
- marked by deep ill will
- lattice
- framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal
- vogue
- the popular taste at a given time
- tarry
- leave slowly and hesitantly
- wayfarer
- a traveler, esp. on foot.
- husbandman
- a person who operates a farm
- ominous
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- assuag
- to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate
- recompense
- to make compensation for something; repay someone
- enmity
- a state of deep-seated ill-will
- delectable
- capable of arousing desire
- catechism
- an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion
- boughs
- large branches of a tree
- evanescent
- tending to vanish like vapor
- mirth
- great merriment
- apothecary
- a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
- ocular
- of or relating to or resembling the eye
- vanquishing
- defeating in a conquest, contest, or competition
- imbued
- inspired or influenced thoroughly; pervaded
- melancholy
- characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
- vacuity
- total absence of matter
- wretch
- a miserable or unhappy person
- abide
- To put up with; tolerate; to comply with
- thither
- to or toward that place
- torpid
- slow and apathetic
- bane
- something causes misery or death
- averred
- declared or affirmed with confidence
- unpardonable
- inexcusable
- portentous
- of momentous or ominous significance
- threshold
- the sill of a door
- vagaries
- an extravagant or erratic notion or action
- lamentations
- expressions of deep sorrow and grief
- portal
- a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)
- pious
- devoutly religious
- chaste
- morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)
- vex
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- genial
- conducive to comfort
- innocuous
- unlikely to harm or disturb anyone
- writh
- to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.
- depraved
- marked by immorality
- incantations
- conventionalized words and slogans used and repeated in a manner likened to the utterance of spells
- pendent
- hanging or suspended; overhanging, projecting
- assiduous
- marked by care and persistent effort
- tendrils
- A twisting, threadlike structure by which a twining plant (vine) grasps an object for support
- guileless
- free of deceit
- benign
- pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
- monstrosity
- something hideous or frightful
- abominable
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- anathema
- a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
- discern
- detect with the senses
- cognizance
- having knowledge of
- ecclesiastical
- of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)
- scruples
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- verily
- in truth
- spires
- steeples that taper to a point
- ardor
- feelings of great warmth and intensity
- heathen
- a person who does not acknowledge God
- steed
- a horse, especially a riding horse
- proselytes
- converts to a religion
- upshot
- the final issue, the conclusion, or the result; the gist, as of an argument or thesis.
- haughtiness
- overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
- wreathed
- adorned or crowned with a circlet
- fiend
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- sedulously
- diligent in application or attention
- resplendent
- having great beauty and splendor
- grisly
- grim or gruesome
- clique
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- venerable
- Commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position.
- steadfastly
- with resolute determination
- kiln
- a large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
- consigned
- entrusted; put in the care of; given over
- imbibe
- receive into the mind and retain
- vicissitudes
- a change or variation occurring in the course of something
- demeanor
- (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people