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SL Vocab # 7-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cabalistic | mysterious |
| dauntless | fearless |
| eldritch | weird; errie |
| imperious | bossy |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature of a thing |
| ludicrous | ridiculous |
| pristine | innocent |
| caprice | whim |
| lattice | slats of wood in a window |
| panoply | suit of armor |
| similitude | likeness |
| tome | large book |
| emaciated | wasted away physically |
| pastoral | of the country side |
| temporal | here as opposed to heaven |
| benevolence | kindness |
| mountebank | pretender |
| perversity | contrariness |
| retribution | punishment |
| sunder | break apart |
| chirurgical | surgical |
| eminent | prominent |
| heterogeneous | mixed |
| imminent | about to happen |
| tremulous | snaking |
| whence | from where |
| advent | coming |
| appellation | name |
| celibacy | abstention by vow from marriage |
| emissary | representative |
| erudition | learning |
| piety | devoutness |
| tumult | commotion |
| vigil | act of keeping watch |
| effected | caused to come into being |
| hideous | horrible, shocking |
| inimical | unfriendly |
| anon | soon |
| perchance | perhaps |
| perforce | by force either physical force or circumstance |
| verily | truly |
| Solace | consolation |
| Vestment | clothing |
| Zeal | fervor |
| Comport | behave |
| Manifest | make evident |
| Palliate | excuse |
| Typify | to represent or symbolize |
| Diabolical | devilish |
| Impalpable | intangible; incapable of being felt by tough |
| Latent | present but not actice |
| Odious | hateful |
| Undissembled | true or open |
| Vile | distaste or hatred |
| Office | special duty conferred by authority |
| Pith | core |
| Presentiment | premonition |
| Purport | instrument for torture by stretching |
| Scourge | type of whip |
| Venteration | respect inspired by dignity talent or wisdom |
| Imbue | dye |
| Loath | detest |
| Smite | hit |
| Start | move suddenly(involuntarily) |
| Acute | sharp |
| Defuncy | dead |
| Inextricable | not capable of being freed from or solved |
| Archfiend | satan |
| Awfulness | full of dread veneration wonder |
| Conceit | fanciful idea |
| Discourse | sermon |
| Exoiration | atonement |
| Firmament | heavens |
| Luminary | lamp |
| Malevolence | state of having vicious ill-will; spite or hatred |
| Patriarch | founding father |
| Pestilence | bubonic plague or other contagious disease |
| Somnambulism | sleep-walking |
| Zenith | highest point reached by a celestial body |
| Betwixt | between |
| Conjecture | suppose |
| Prefigure | show by an earlier type |
| Somniferous | sleep-producing |
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