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World Lit.
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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cozen | to ceat or deceive |
tractable | easily managed |
abhor | to hate, detest |
acquicse | give in, agree to |
rancorous | bitterly resentful |
eschew | avoid, shun |
emulate | to rival, imitate |
ruse | an action or device meant to mislead |
machination | a crafty scheme, an evil plot |
discernment | perception, recognition |
cuckold | a betrayed husband (w/horns) |
hairshirt | garment worn by penitents |
blockers | focus impeding plot |
tattoo | a continuous drumming or tapping |
votary | monk or nun |
pulchritud | physical beauty and appeal |
faction | a unified, discontent group |
manifest | clear, obvious |
reprove | rebuke, finding fault |
importunate | stubbornly persistent |
feign | to pretend |
palpable | capable of being felt, concrete |
assauge | satisfy, appease, calm |
farthing | to coin worth, 1/4 of a penny |
temerity | reckless disregard of duty |
myrrh | a fragrant gum resin |
routed | defeated overwhelmingly |
shaft | the long part of an arrow or gun |
helm | forward part of a ship |
dirges | funeral hymns, laments |
sooty | covered with black carbon form a fire |
hovel | small, poor dwellings |
touchstone | a stone used to test if gold is real, any test of value |
deign | to think fit, grant, agree to |
reticence | reserve, disinclination to speak |
beacon | a signal fire on a hill |
seer | someone who can foresee the future |
henchmen | a male attendant to someone in power |
libations | sacrificial offerings of wine |
straights | narrow connecting waterway |
onslaught | a violent, intense attack |
seraph | an angel of the highest order |
recoil | to draw back, retreat |
lulled | calmed, quieted, soothed |
censoriousness | faultfinding, carping |
ostentatious | characterized by pretentious show |
spleen | ill humor or spite, also an organ |
mummeries | mime show, empty performance |
charlotan | quack, one who pretends to be an expert |
mountebank | trickster, especially a medical quack |
specious | deceptively attractive, plausible but false |
knavery | dishonest dealing or a piece od mischief |
malapropism | a ludicrous misuse of a word |
coquett | a female flirt |
ucurp | to take over another's power or rights |
frippies | showy trivial adornments |
saucy | impertinent, disrespectful |
purged | cleansed, got rid of something unpleasant |
carrion | corpses, dead people or animals |
scurged | beating, plague or curse |
(death) throes | painful struggles and spasms of death |
cauldron | a large metal bowl |
lyre | small stringed instrument of the harp family |
mercenary | motivated by desire for money (as a hired soldier) |
deplete | to diminish, lessen, run out of something |
oracle | a fortune, message about future, or person delivering it |
rite | a formalized religious or ceremonial ritual |
pomps | proud, very formal shows |
annihilation | utter destruction |
flaunt | an overly proud, extravagant show |
quick | deepest feeling, painful flesh under fingernail |