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Abigail_Volz
Red Pyramid Terms 31-65
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Auspicious | Promising success ;propitious;opportune; favorable. |
| Sabotaged | any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute. |
| Cartouche | a rounded, convex surface, usually surrounded with carved ornamental scrollwork, for receiving a painted or low-relief decoration, as an escutcheon. |
| Summoned | to call upon to do something specified. |
| Palette | a thin and usually oval or oblong board or tablet with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters for holding and mixing colors. |
| Avatar | the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god. |
| Annihilation | the act or an instance of annihilating. |
| Construed | to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret. |
| Flotsam | the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan. |
| Embodiment | the act of embodying. |
| Incantations | the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power. |
| Inferno | hell; the infernal regions. |
| Necromancer | a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead; black art. |
| Premonition | a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment. |
| Reconciling | to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired |
| Retort | to reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way; reply in kind to. |
| Sinewy | having strong sinews. |
| Dubiously | doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt. |
| Imploded | to burst inward. |
| Intercepted | to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended. |
| Averted | to turn away. |
| Residual | pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder;any leftover. |
| Pillaged | to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence. |
| Coalesced | to grow together or into one body; A river going into the ocean. |
| Portal | a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace. |
| Predicament | dangerous, difficult situation. |
| Futilely | incapable of producing any result; not productive. |
| Lithe | bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible; slight. |
| Converged | to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel. |
| Queues | a braid of hair worn hanging down behind. |
| Supplicant | |
| Horde | a large group, multitude, number. |
| Mandibles | the bone of the lower jaw. |
| Apathetic | having or showing little or no emotion |
| Scry |