Midterm Vocab, Loprete
Vocab for my sophomore english midterm.
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- enmity
- deep hatred
- furtive
- shifty, secretive
- pliant
- easily bent
- immured
- imprisoned or confined
- ebulliance
- enthusiasm, joy
- tumult
- commotion
- officious
- meddlesome
- inscrutable
- unthinkable
- vicissitude
- change or variation
- incredulous
- indicating disbeleif
- declivity
- descending slope
- founder
- to sink, disabled
- sussurration
- murmur
- tacit
- implied, not spoken
- clamor
- loud outcry
- gesticulate
- animated gestures
- belligerence
- warlike
- innefectual
- futile
- tempestuous
- stormy
- interminable
- unending
- tremulous
- fearful
- leviathan
- huge object, monster
- decorum
- propriety of behavior
- bravado
- swaggering pretense
- contemptuous
- scornful, disdainful
- cynicism
- faultfinding disposition
- indignity
- humiliating affront
- iridescent
- rainbow like shimmers
- corpulent
- very fat
- succulent
- juicy
- torrid
- parched by sun, passionate, sultry
- myopia
- near sighted
- truculent
- scathingly harsh
- innucuous
- harmless
- wraith
- apparition, ghost
- conspicous
- obvious
- mien
- demeanor
- sardonic
- cynical, wry
- degenerate
- to deteriorate
- querelous
- given to complaining, peevish, trembling
- repellent
- causing dislike
- undulating
- moving in waves
- congenial
- friendly or copmpatible
- lurid
- lifelessly pale, gruesome
- reproach
- to blame or scold
- bulbous
- swollen
- frieze
- decorative horizontal band, (top of a wall)
- fatuity
- stupidity conveyed with an air of pride
- incense
- to make extremely angry
- timorous
- timid
- lascivious
- expressing lust, lecherous
- assay
- an attempt
- conjuration
- spell
- insolent
- arrogent, insulting