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AP-Heart of Darkness
AP English- Heart of Darkness Vocab
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| diaphanous (adj) | very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent |
| lurid (adj) | gruesome; horrible; revolting; shocking |
| venerable (adj) | commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character |
| sedentary (adj) | characterized by or requiring a sitting posture; abiding in one place; not migratory |
| Immutability (n) | unchangeable; changeless |
| Inscrutable (adj) | incapable of being investigated, analyzed; not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable |
| concertina (n) | a musical instrument resembling an accordion but having buttonlike keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range |
| sepulchre (n) | a chamber that is used as a grave |
| somnambulist (n) | someone who walks about in their sleep |
| placidity (n) | a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling |
| cravat (n) | a cloth, often made of or trimmed with lace, worn about the neck by men esp. in the 17th century |
| sententious (adj) | given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous |
| calipers (n) | an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs |
| emissary (n) | a representative sent on a mission or errand |
| lugubrious (adj) | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner |
| drollery (n) | something whimsically amusing or funny |
| dissipate (v) | to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel |
| declivity (n) | a downward slope, as of ground |
| recrudescence (n) | breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence |
| alacrity (n) | cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness |
| prudence (n) | caution with regard to practical matters; discretion |
| rapacious (adj) | given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed |
| insidious (adj) | operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect |
| philanthropic (adj) | organized to provide humanitarian or charitable assistance |
| efface (v) | to rub out, erase, or obliterate |
| moribund (adj) | in a dying state; near death |
| worsted (n) | firmly twisted yarn or thread spun from combed, stapled wool fibers of the same length, for weaving, knitting, etc. |
| propitiatory (adj) | intended to reconcile or appease |
| lamentable (adj) | regrettable; unfortunate |
| trenchant (adj) | incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting |
| pompous (adj) | characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance |
| insolence (n) | contemptuously RUDE or impertinent behavior or speech |
| prevaricator (n) | a person who speaks falsely; liar |
| superciliousness (n) | quality of being HAUGHTILY disdainful or contemptuous |
| conflagration (n) | a destructive fire, usually an extensive one |
| stanchion (n) | an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc. |
| recondite (adj) | dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter; little known; obscure |
| obsequiously (adv) | characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference |
| pestiferous (adj) | to spread and cause an epidemic disease; tending to corrupt or pervert |
| fusillade (n) | a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms; a general discharge or outpouring of anything |
| evanescent (adj) | vanishing; fading away; fleeting |
| sagacious (adj) | having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd |
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