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Sleepy hollow vocabu
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abundance | A lot of something |
| Affrighted | Full of fear |
| Amorous | Having to do with love |
| Amour | Synonym for love |
| Ample | Enough to get around |
| Apparition | Ghost |
| Apprehend | Take to jail or understanding something |
| Asunder | To separate |
| Authentic | Real or not fake |
| Bevy | A group or gathering |
| Bosom | Cloth that covers the chest or breasts |
| Chivalrous | Being attentive to women like an ideal knight |
| Chronicle | A record or narrative description of past events |
| Conscientious | Characterized by extreme care or great effort |
| Coquette | A sedative women who uses her sex appeal to exploit men |
| Covert | Secret or hidden |
| Credulity | Tendency to believe readily |
| Denominate | Assign a name or title to |
| Despotic | Ruled by or characteristic of a despot; |
| Diligent | Characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks |
| Dismal | Causing dejection |
| Dismay | Fear resulting from the awareness of danger |
| Doleful | Filled with or evoking sadness |
| Epitaph | An inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there |
| Esteemed | Having an illustrious reputation |
| Extracts | Remove or take out |
| Famine | A severe shortage of food |
| Formidable | Inspiring fear |
| Frolic | Gay or light-hearted |
| Gallant | Unflinching in battle or action |
| Gazette | A newspaper or official journa |
| Harbinger | A person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another |
| Hardihood | The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger |
| Ingenious | Showing inventiveness and skill |
| Innovation | The act of starting something for the first time |
| Inveterate | Having a habit of long standing |
| Itinerant | Working for a short time in different places |
| Lateral | Lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body |
| Mast | A vertical spar for supporting sails |
| Melancholy | Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness |
| Merriment | Activities that are enjoyable or amusing |
| Patron | A regular customer |
| Perambulation | A walk around a territory |
| Petty | Contemptibly narrow in outlook |
| Pommel | Handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle |
| Portentous | Of momentous or ominous significance |
| Pretensions | The laying of a claim to something |
| Rustic | Awkwardly simple and provincial |
| Specter | A mental representation of some haunting experience |
| Vininity | A surrounding or nearby region |
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Ericlee337
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