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KML14240
peo vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Avatar | the incubation of god |
| Pestilence | a deadly disease |
| Sagacious | keen of sent |
| August | inspiring reverence of admiration |
| Contagion | the spread of a disease from one person to another with close contact |
| Amontillado | a pale, dry spanish sherry |
| Impunity | exemption from punishment |
| Retributuion | Punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved |
| Immolation | to kill with fire |
| Connoisseur | an expert judge in matters of taste |
| Virtuoso | a person who has special knowledge of skill in a field |
| Accost | to confront bodly |
| Motley | an incongrous mixture |
| Nitre | used especially as a fertilizer and explosive/keep cold |
| Roquelaire | long coat |
| Palazzo | palace |
| abscond | to depart in a sudden and secret manner |
| Sconce | a bracket for candles |
| Flambeaux | torch |
| Catacombs | underground cemetery |
| Medoc | a wine growing region in Gironde |
| Azure | Color Blue |
| Puncheon | a short postivesed for supporting a roof |
| Gesticulation | a deleberate and vigorous gesture or motion |
| Ignoramus | a ignorant or stupid person |
| Fetter | a chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner |
| Implore | beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something |
| Pervade | to become spread throughout all parts of |
| Sojourn | a temporary stay |
| Discernible | distinguishable. |
| Scrutinizing | to examine in detail with careful or critical attention. |
| Tarn | small mountain lake or pool, |
| Cadaverousness | of or like a corpse |
| Profuse | spending or giving freely and in large amount, |
| Vivacious | lively; animated |
| Pallid | pale; faint or deficient in color; |
| Stupor | suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics |
| Insipid | without distinctive |
| Similitude | likeness; resemblance |
| Demeanor | conduct; behavior |
| Incubus | an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons |
| Potency | the state or quality of being potent. |
| Obstinate | firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc. |
| Emaciated | marked by emaciation. |
| Prodigious | extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc |
| Surcease | to cease from some action; desist. |
| Obeisance | a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior |
| Nepenthe | a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble. |
| Ghastly | shockingly frightful or dreadful |
| Gaunt | extremely thin and bony |
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