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english ToTC book 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| incommodious | =Adjective - causing inconvenience or discomfort - cumbersome, restricted |
| extemporized= | adj. - compose something such as speech without preporation - improvise, perform |
| ogled= | verb - stare - gawked |
| insensate= | adj. - indifferent - apathy |
| purloiner= | noun - someone who steals - burglar, thief |
| emulative= | adj. - imitative - mimetic, copying |
| escutcheon= | noun - shield - coat |
| Impressible= | adj. - penetrable - impressionable, suseptable |
| pursuance= | noun - the carrying out of a plan/action - persecution, execution, implementation |
| frizzled= | adj. - fried heavily (to a crisp/curl) - browned |
| servility= | noun - submission - subjugation, slavery |
| abject= | adj. - miserable, pitiful - wretched |
| sprites | =noun - elf/fairies - nymph, pixies |
| injunction= | noun- decree, mandate |
| palpable | =adj. - able to be touched or felt - perceptible |
| infernal | =adj. - relating to hell/underworld - demonic, cursed |
| desolate | =adj. - deserted of people, emptiness - bleak, forsaken |
| prattling | =verb - to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way - chatter, babble |
| turbid | =adj. - cloudy, muddy, in a state of turmoil - muddled, opaque |
| astern | =adj./adv. - the back of a ship - aback, aft |
| jackal | =noun - prairie wolf - canine, scavenger |
| florid | =adj. - excessively decorated or embellished - baroque, ornate, flamboyant |
| rendered= | verb - to cause to be or become - make |
| incorrigible= | adj. - incapable of being reformed or improved - inveterate |
| contagion | =noun - the communication of disease from one person to another by close contact - plague, infection |
| tocsin | =noun - alarm - signal |
| unkempt | =adj. - shabby - disheveled, ruffled |
| LUMINOUS | ADJ- bright, brilliant, glowing - gleaming |
| balustrades | =noun - railing, rails - posts, handrails |
| peremptory | =adj. - having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial - determined, resolute |
| functionary | =noun - official (who performs a particular function) - bureaucrat |
| conflagration | =noun - a large destructive fire - inferno |
| rents | =verb - torn or separated - splits, tears |
| stupefied | =Verb - stunned, amazed - dumbfounded |
| enshrouded | Verb - envelop completely and hide from view - cloak |
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