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Watching God 2
Definition | Term |
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gloomy | Sullen |
embarrassment | discomfiture |
humbling yourself | prostrating |
one who assumes command | usurper |
emotionless | stolidness |
sympathized | commiserated |
pretentiously | ostentatiously |
peninsulas | promontories |
unskilled | menial |
a bedspread | counterpane |
a curved, single-edged sword | scimitars |
to act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument or postpone a decision | temporized |
condemn | denounce |
a roadside or rural establishment offering liquor, dancing, and often gambling | jook |
that which is sent is sent forth | emanations |
homeless persons who travel from place to place | transients |
an embarkment of earth and rock built to prevent floods | dyke |
emission of light without burning or by every slow burning without appreciable heat | phosphorescent |
flocks | droves |
respect | homage |
ruining | defilement |
cranky | peevish |
slanting | oblique |
a celestial being having 3 pairs of wings | seraphs |
quarrel | fracas |
roughly built shacks | shanties |
sculpture | bas-relief |
numb | insensate |
God | deity |
change | transmutation |
angel | cherubim |
jogging | loping |
immoral | wanton |
skillfully | deftly |