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Lit Vocabulary
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Litany | A tedious recital or repetitive series |
| Ostentatious | Attracting or seeking to attract attention |
| Vehement | Showing strong feeling; passion; intense |
| Lament | Mourn; passionate expression of grief |
| Contentious | Likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| Incongruous | Out of place; incompatible |
| Illicit | Unlawful, not legally permitted; forbidden by laws, rule, or custom |
| Fervor | Intense and passionate feeling |
| Crass | Without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; stupid |
| Piety | Devotion to God or to religious practices |
| Bellicose | Demonstrating aggression or willingness to fight |
| Discourse | Written or spoken communication or debate |
| Vacillate | Alternate or waiver between opinions or actions; be indecisive |
| Profound | Very great or intense |
| Superficial | Surface level |
| Strident | Presenting a point, especially a controversial one, in an excessively forceful way |
| Idyllic | Extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque |
| Sublime | Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe |
| Reprieve | Cancellation or postponement of a punishment of someone (especially someone condemned to death) |
| Approbation | Approval or praise |
| Fervent | Having or displaying a passionate intensity |
| Aesthetic | Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty |
| Vexation | Something that causes annoyance, frustration, or worry |
| Rumination | Obsessive thinking about an idea, situation, or choice especially when it interferes with normal mental functioning |
| Aloof | Not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant |
| Elegiac | Relating to or characteristic of an elegy |
| Obdurate | Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action |
| Callous | Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others |
| Stoic | A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining |
| Assuage | Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense |
| Profiligate | Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources |
| Vitiate | Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of |
| Trepidation | A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen |
| Malady | A disease or ailment |
| Corpulent | (of a person) fat |
| Derisive | Expressing contempt or ridicule |
| Penitent | Feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; repentant |
| Inundate | Overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with |
| Secular | Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis |
| Censure | Express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement |
| Defray | Provide money to pay (a cost or expense) |
| Interloper | A person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong |
| Fatuous | Silly or pointless |
| Patronizing | Apparently kind or helpful but betraying a feeling of superiority; condescending |
| Incensed | Very angry; enraged. |
| Accede | Agree to a demand, request, or treaty |
| Errant | Straying from the proper course or standards. |
| Phlegmatic | (of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition |
| Prostrate | Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward. |
| Jocund | Cheerful and lighthearted |
| Sanguine | Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation |
| Hegemony | Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others |
| Lassitude | A state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy |
| Licentious | Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters |
| Presumptuous | (of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate |
| Indolent | Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy |
| Chasten | (of a rebuke or misfortune) have a restraining or moderating effect on |
| Corporeal | Having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body |
| Enumerate | Mention (a number of things) one by one |
| Sordid | immoral or dishonest |
| Etymology | the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history |
| Acquiesce | accept something reluctantly but without protest |
| Idiosyncratic | peculiar or individual |
| Surfeit | an excessive amount of something |
| Ignominious | deserving or causing public disgrace or shame. |
| Goad | provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate some action or reaction |
| Languor | the state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness |
| Generalization | a stereotype or concept obtained by inference from specific cases |
| Allocation | the action or process of distributing something. |
| Redundant | not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous |
| Wry | using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor |
| Ruminate | think deeply about something |
| Admonish | warn or reprimand someone firmly |
| Visage | a person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features |
| Jovial | cheerful and friendly |
| Invocation | the action of asking something or someone for assistance or as an authority |
| Sanctity | the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly |
| Opulence | great wealth or luxuriousness |
| Indignation | anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment |
| Virtue | behavior showing high moral standards |
| Beget | give rise to; bring about |
| Cajole | persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery |
| Concrete | existing in a material or physical form; not abstract |
| Indulgence | the action or fact of indulging |
| Deportment | the manner in which one conducts oneself |
| Sanctioned | give official permission or approval for (an action). |
| Corroborate | to support with evidence or authority |
| Consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody) |
| Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ) |
| Synesthesia | the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body |
| Enjambment | (in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza |
| Vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| Assertion | a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief |
| Melancholy | a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause |
| Nonchalant | relaxed and calm |
| Copious | large in quantity; abundant; plentiful |
| Scrupulous | (of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to detail |
| Transcendent | beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience |
| Deference | humble submission and respect |
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