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Handmaid’s tale voca
Handmaid’s tale vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pungent | strong and sharp to the sense of taste or smell |
| Taint | place under suspicion or cast doubt upon |
| Palimpsest | a manuscript on which more than one text has been written |
| Forlorn | marked by or showing hopelessness |
| Wail | a cry of sorrow and grief |
| Yearn | desire strongly or persistently |
| Insatiable | impossible to fulfill, appease, or gratify |
| Surly | unfriendly and inclined toward anger or irritation |
| Avert | turn away or aside |
| Reproach | express criticism towards |
| Threshold | the starting point for a new state or experience |
| Genteel | marked by refinement in taste and manners |
| Jaunty | having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air |
| Servile | submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior |
| Whimsical | determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity |
| Demure | shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way |
| Ravenous | extremely hungry |
| Menial | relating to unskilled work, especially domestic work |
| Hoard | save up as for future use |
| Surrpetitiously | in a secretive manner |
| Mesmerized | having your attention fixated as though by a spell |
| Sedate | dignified and somber in manner or character |
| Disconsolate | sad beyond comforting; incapable of being soothed |
| Chalice | a bowl-shaped drinking vessel |
| Sanctity | the quality of being holy |
| Quagmire | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot |
| Parley | a negotiation between enemies |
| Lugubrious | excessively mournful |
| Wretch | someone you feel sorry for |
| Unfathomable | impossible to come to understand |
| Stagnant | not circulating or flowing |
| Bludgeon | strike with a club |