100 Years of Solitude Vocab
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dubberruckii on February 15, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alchemist | a person who studies or practices alchemy [medieval science] |
| ingot | a mold in which metal is cast |
| abnegation | denial, self-denial |
| astrolabe | an astronomical instrument for taking the altitude of the sun or stars |
| august | marked by majestic dignity or grandeur |
| tenacious | persistent, stubborn |
| prodigious | being an omen |
| aura | a distinctive atmosphere surrounding a given source |
| didactic | intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment |
| diabolical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles; imperfectly developed |
| hawker | a person who offers goods for sale by shouting his or her wares in the street or going from door to door; peddler. |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff; lacking normal or youthful firmness |
| appreciable | capable of being perceived or measured |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength; flimsy, weak |
| impregnated | to cause to be filled or saturated |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| oblivion | the condition or state of being forgotten or unknown |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome |
| implacable | not capable of being soothed/calmed, significantly changed, or less severe |
| impelled | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| pestilential | giving rise to vexation or annoyance; irritating |
| artifice | an ingenious device or expedient |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| singed | to burn superficially or lightly |
| languid | sluggish in character or disposition |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal |
| seraphim | an order of angels |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that throws into confusion |
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