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Murrell Eng 10 Voc 4
Term | Definition |
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•affinity | – likeness or resemblance |
•futile | – useless, unimportant |
•reverie | – dreamlike meditation |
•cryptic | - mysterious, puzzling |
•penuriousness | – stinginess or frugality |
•aesthetic | - pertaining to a sense of beauty |
•lyric | – poetry having a musical quality, expressing the poet’s thoughts and feelings |
•poignant | – keenly affecting the emotions |
•austere | – severe |
•elegiac | – expressing sorrow |
•cochineal | – red dye |
•indissolubly | – firmly |
•inquisitive | – eager, questioning, curious |
•vicissitude | – change or variation |
•languid | – lacking in spirit or energy |
•innuendo | – insinuation, inference |
•assuage | – to make less severe; to relieve |
•renown – widespread praise | – to make less severe; to relieve |