Literature Vocab test #4
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- avocation
- customary employment/ an actibity one engages with regularly for enjoument rather than a job
- voluptuos
- giving pleasure to the senses
- nocturnal
- of relating to, or occuring in teh night/ active in during the night
- philanthropy
- a spirit of goodwill towards all peole 3especially when expressed in active and generous efforts to help others/ a charitable act or gift/ an organization which distributes or is supported by charitable contributions
- vile
- morally bad/ physically ugly/ of little worth/ very or comletelybad
- putrid
- being in a state putrefaction/ characteristic of putrefaction/ morally objectionable
- commemorative
- to call to remembrance to mark by a ceramony/ to be memorial
- prevarications
- lie
- demented
- mad-insane/ crazy
- primate
- a bishop or achbishop of the highest rank in a district nation or church/ any order of mammals that are characterized by hands and feet that grasp a relativily large comlex brain and vision in shich objects are seen in threee dimensions that include human beings and apes
- nocturnal
- of relating to, or occuring in teh night/ active in during the night
- epic
- of relating to or being like an epic/ usually long or great in size or scope long poem telling of the deeds of a hero
- subliminally
- not strong enough to produce asensation or a ental awarness/ existing or functioning below the level of consious awarness
- artillery
- large firearms/ a branch of an army armed with artillery
- incandescent
- white or glowing with great heat/ lightbulb
- avocation
- customary employment/ an actibity one engages with regularly for enjoument rather than a job
- prevarications
- lie
- paranoia
- a serious mental disorder marked especially by feelings of persecution or an exagerated sense of aone's own importance usually without hallucination/ a tendency to be over suspicioius
- arsenal
- a place for the manufacture or storage of arms/ a collection of weapons
- prosecute
- to follow up to the end/ keep at/ to catty on a legal action against an accused person to prove his or her guilt
- academic
- of or relating to school or college/ literary or general ratherthan technical/ having no practical importance
- paranoia
- a serious mental disorder marked especially by feelings of persecution or an exagerated sense of aone's own importance usually without hallucination/ a tendency to be over suspicioius
- subliminally
- not strong enough to produce asensation or a ental awarness/ existing or functioning below the level of consious awarness
- SUBSIDIZE
- TO AID OF FURNISH WITH A SUBSIDY/ a grant or gift especially of money a grant by a government to a private person or company
- excruciating
- causing great mental or physical pain/ severe
- secrete
- to produce and give off a secretion/ to deposit or conceal in a hiding spot
- patron
- person chosen as a gaurdian/ one who gives generous suppot and approval/ person who buys goods or ases services offered
- disdain
- a feeling of scorn for something or someone regrded as beneath one's self/ to liik on with scorn/ to reject or fefuse because of disdain
- omens
- a happening or warning believed to be a bad sign or warning of a future event
- SUBSIDIZE
- TO AID OF FURNISH WITH A SUBSIDY/ a grant or gift especially of money a grant by a government to a private person or company
- incandescent
- white or glowing with great heat/ lightbulb
- compulsive
- caused by or subject to an irresistable urge
- terminal
- forming an end/ growing at eh end of a branch or a stem/ occuring in a term/ leading to death/ the end of a period or series/ end forms/ device that attaches to the end of a wire for making connections/ end of transportation freight line pass stations/ end of twon of transportation line/ device used for data entry or display
- erosion
- the act or precesss of eroding the state of being eroded or decayed
- antagonostic
- a state of being opposed to something or unfriendly toward someone
- antagonostic
- a state of being opposed to something or unfriendly toward someone
- commemorative
- to call to remembrance to mark by a ceramony/ to be memorial
- perpetual
- continuing forever-ever lasting/ to cause tolast forever
- compulsive
- caused by or subject to an irresistable urge
- corpse
- a dead body that is decaying
- philanthropy
- a spirit of goodwill towards all peole 3especially when expressed in active and generous efforts to help others/ a charitable act or gift/ an organization which distributes or is supported by charitable contributions
- disdain
- a feeling of scorn for something or someone regrded as beneath one's self/ to liik on with scorn/ to reject or fefuse because of disdain