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omega WDC vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Chastising | rebuke, reprimand; inflict punishment or suffering on to improve; punish |
| Craned | Stretch out one's neck in order to see something |
| accosted | approach agressively; approach and speak to first |
| recollections | act of remembering something; act or power of recalling to mind |
| bigotry | intolerant conduct or attitude; intolerance of different views |
| initiated | first steps in any undertaking; be the first one to start; set going; begin |
| moot | subject to debate |
| thwarted | prevented from doing something;psrticularly by blocking the way; defeat |
| harrowing | acutely distressing; tormenting; painful |
| menaces | something that threatens; threats |
| respite | a short period of rest or relief |
| hecklers | to harrass: interrupt |
| dousing | pour liquid over; to splash with water |
| lulled | calm or send to sleep; period of less noise or violence |
| rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing |
| nape | back of a person's neck |
| enraptured | to fill with delight |
| barrage | bombard; overwhelming quanity of words, blows or criticism |
| intervening | coming between persons or groups to help settle a dispute |
| jovial | good-hearted and full of fun; good humored |
| proviso | clause or article in a contract, treaty, etc.,that states a condition; stipulations |
| spewed | expel large quantaties of something; throw out; cast forth |
| ousted | forced out; driven out; expelled |
| hodgepodge | a disorderly mixture; mess; jumble |
| remnant | a small remaining quantity; fragment |
| snippets | a small piece snipped off; bit; fragment |
| impeccably | flawless; free from fault; not capable of sin |