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Honors 12 - List 12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conflagration | an extensive, destructive fire |
| niche | an ornamental recess in a wall - usually semicircular in plan and arched for a statue or other decorative object |
| relic | an object having interest by reason of its age or its association with the past |
| resurgence | rising or tending to rise again; reviving |
| sarcophagus | a stone coffin |
| seraphim | the plural noun for seraph, meaning angel; one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6. |
| feign | to imitate deceptively; to pretend deceptively |
| rejuvenate | to make young again; restore to youthful vigor or appearance; to restore to a former state; make fresh or new again |
| gargantuan | gigantic; enormous; colossal |
| inevitable | unavoidable; inescapable |
| macabre | gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible |
| omnipotent | almighty or infinite in power, as God; having very great or unlimited authority or power |