Things Fall Apart Glossary
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- Abomination
- n. Something that is viewed with horror ot that is intensely hated
- benevolent
- adj. good or disposed to do good
- deftly
- adj. done with dexterity or skill
- entrails
- n. intestines or other inner organs
- espy
- v. to catch sight of
- feign
- v. to pretend; create a false apperance
- grandee
- n. a man of elevated rank of station
- harbinger
- n. forerunner; one who is sent ahead to prepaer for the ones who will follow
- kite
- n. a small hawk with long narrow wings and often a notched or forked tail
- mortar
- n. a strong vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pesle
- oracle
- n. a person though whom a deity speaks
- pottage
- n. a thick soup of vegetables that often contains meat
- pulsation
- n. a rhythmic throbbin
- rebuke
- v. to criticize sharply or reprimand
- stammer
- v. to speak in a faltering or stumbling way
- tendril
- n. a twisting, threadlike structure by which a twining plant grasps an object or another plant for support
- uncanny
- adj. eerie, mysterious or weird
- amiss
- adj. imperfect; fauly; gone wrong
- brandish
- v. to shake or wave an object in a menacing way
- cunning
- n. skill in deception
- delectable
- adj. delicious or delightful
- esoteric
- adj. intened fir or understood by an elite or small group
- forsook
- v. to have renounced or turned away from
- gnash
- v. to grind or strike one's teeth together
- impenetrably
- adj. withouth possibility of being penetrated
- lamenation
- n. an act of mourning or sorrow
- malevolence
- n. the quailty of vicious ill will
- pandemonium
- n. palce of uproar
- quaver
- v. to tremble
- saltpeter
- n. sodium nitrate, a white crystalline compound
- sediment
- n. a deposit; mattter that settles at the bottom of liquid
- tremulous
- adj, characterized by tremors; shaky
- tumult
- n, a noisy disorder produced by a crowd
- voluble
- adj. talkative