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British Writers
James Joyce vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| impecunious | having little or no money; poor |
| pusillianimity | timidity;cowardliness |
| sedulously | carefully maintained |
| enervated | without force or strength |
| punctiliousity | strictly attentive to minute details of conduct |
| ameliorate | improve |
| melancholy | a gloomy state of mind |
| fulminate | to explode with loud noise |
| revery | a state of dreamy meditation |
| discrete | apart or detached from others |
| execrate | curse |
| congeries | a collection of parts in one mass |
| obsequiously | obediently |
| maleficient | doing harm |