Ross Vocab
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- Pedantic
- overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching.
- Unwieldy
- Difficult to carry or manage because of size, shape, weight, or complexity
- Impassive
- without emotion; apathetic; unmoved
- Captor
- a person who has captured a person or thing
- Seer
- a person endowed with profound moral and spiritual insight or knowledge; a wise person or sage who possesses intuitive powers
- Inscrutable
- not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable
- Uncanny
- having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary
- Vigilance
- Alert watchfulness
- Drone
- To make a continuous low dull humming sound
- Imperious
- domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing
- Placid
- pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed
- Sardonic
- characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering
- Incredulity
- the quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe.
- Perpetual
- continuing or enduring forever; everlasting
- Repugnant
- distasteful, objectionable, or offensive
- Fledgling
- 1. A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers
- Mercenary
- working or acting merely for money or other reward
- Writhe
- to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.
- Bludgeon
- a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- Vertigo
- a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings
- Lurid
- gruesome; horrible; revolting
- Innocuous
- not harmful or injurious; harmless
- Despondency
- depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope
- Formidable
- causing fear, apprehension, or dread
- Plume
- a feather
- Bivouac
- a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- Stolid
- not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- Phantasmagoria
- a shifting series of illusions or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination
- Languid
- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow
- Haughty
- disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious
- Sanguine
- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
- Evanescent
- vanishing; fading away; fleeting
- Heresy
- opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, esp. of a church or religious system.
- Incessant
- Continuing without interruption
- Clamber
- to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty
- Chastise
- to discipline, esp. by corporal punishment.
- Renegade
- a person who deserts a party or cause for another
- Facade
- the front of a building, esp. an imposing or decorative one
- Abate
- to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.
- Burnish
- to polish
- Reprove
- to disapprove of strongly
- Crucible
- a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures
- Agog
- highly excited by eagerness, curiosity, anticipation, etc.
- Inconspicuous
- noticeable or prominent
- Soporific
- causing or tending to cause sleep.
- Pallid
- pale; faint or deficient in color
- Dowdy
- not stylish; drab; old-fashioned
- Zenith
- the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer