Vocab Quiz 1
Terms
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- desolate
- deserted, barren
- dictum
- an authoritative statement, decree
- din
- loud and discordant noises
- feint
- to fake someone out
- flourish
- to thrive, to grow well
- fold
- a group bound together by common beliefs; a fenced in enclosure for sheep
- incessant
- uniterrupted
- insidious
- treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way
- luxuriant
- abundant in growth, very fertile
- melancholy
- depression of spirits
- metaphorically
- compared nonliterally
- mural
- a painting on a wall or ceiling
- oblivion
- state of being forgotten
- abstracted
- distracted, lost in one's own mind
- aesthetic
- relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art
- bestial
- brutal without reason, savage
- blanch
- to bleach, to make white
- cacophonous
- harsh sounding
- censorious
- critical
- centrifuge
- an apparatus used for separating by way of centrifugal force
- certitudes
- things that are inevitable or certain
- contempt
- scorn, extreme dislike or disdain