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Vocab 1-50
Term | Definition |
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Unrequited | not reciprocated or returned |
Bizarre | odd |
Benign | gentle or kind |
Spurned | refused or rejected |
Pined | to yern intensely for something unattainable |
Divine | heavenly |
Whimsical | subject to unpredictable change |
Timbre | sound specific to an instrament |
Waxing | increasing in intensity |
Beguiling | leading by deception |
Sovereign | person with supreme authority or political power |
fell | deadly |
Expounded | explained clearly |
Mellifluous | smoothly flowing |
Melancholy | a sad mood |
surfeit | more than enough; excess |
Aptly | appropriately |
Sage | a very wise person |
hyperbole | exaggeration |
Pulchritudinous | beautiful |
Superlative | better than all others |
Beseeched | to request urgently |
on tenterhooks | waiting in suspense |
virtuous | good morals |
woo | to gain someones love |
Motley | diverse |
Nubile | attractive |
Disquieted | alarmed |
Siblings | brothers and sisters |
Ethereal | heavenly |
Mollified | to soothe in temper |
Animate | alive |
Lugubriously | mournfully |
Meritorious | deserving praise |
Rejoined | returned |
Demise | death |
Abjured | rejected |
Bereft | not having something you need or want |
Sequestering | setting apart; segregating |
Ingratiate | gain favor |
Eunuch | a man who is celibate |
Mute | silent |
Belch | burp |
Quaffing | drinking freely |
Sot | drunkard |
Vociferously | noisily |
Egregious | very noticeable |
Melodramatic | overly dramatic |