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Dark Romantic Lit
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pretense | fake, false |
| Contempt | hatred |
| Vexation | bothersome, an annoyance |
| Incredulously | disbelievingly, skeptically |
| Phantasm | an illusory likeness of something, specter, ghost |
| Sagacious | having or showing keen discernment, and sound judgment. |
| Scruple | a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions. |
| Malevolence | ill will; malice; hatred. |
| Atrocity | the quality of being extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal. |
| Debauch | a period of wanton self-indulgence, an excessive party which includes consumption of alcohol. |
| Remorse | deep and painful regret for wrongdoing. |
| Pestilence | something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil. |
| Succumb | to give way to superior force; yield. |
| In vain | without effect or avail; to no purpose. |
| Vanity | obsessive self |
| Aptly | correct, fitting |
| Pious | religious, honest follower of a religion |
| Sable | the darkest achromatic visual value; the darkest black |
| Jungian Shadow | Part of the unconscious mind, opposite of our everyday persona or conscious mind, not "evil" but opposite |
| When did Dark Romantic/Gothic Literature start and end in the U.S | 1830s- Mid 1860s. |