| Term | Definition |
|---|
| verisimilitude | the appearance or semblance of truth and actuality |
| vivacity | quality of liveliness |
| immutable | not changeable |
| nostalgia | a bittersweet longing for the past |
| pristine | remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted |
| tenuous | flimsy: weak |
| ineluctably | inevitably: not to be avoided or changed |
| emissary | an agent sent on a mission to represent another |
| mastication | the chewing of food |
| elegiac | expressing sorrow: mournful |
| inducted | admitted as a member |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies: prototype |
| allusion | an indirect reference |
| specter | a ghostly reference |
| sublimation | the holding back from expressing something in its original form, instead expressing in a more socially-accepted manner |
| turgid | swollen |
| gesticulating | making or using gestures, esp. in an animated or excited manner |
| insolence | contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech |
| pinioned | disabled: restrained |
| stupefied | astonished |
| motley | having elements of great variety |
| beseechingly | in an urgently requesting manner |
| sullenly | with irritation or ill humor: gloomily |
| listlessly | lacking energy or enthusiasm: lethargically |
| querulous | habitually complaining: whining |
| importunately | persistently: troublesomely |
| imploring | beseechingly: in a begging manner |
| emulate | imitate |
| annunciation | proclamation |
| supercilious | haughty: arrogant |
| ulterior | beyond what is expressed, implied, or evident: undisclosed |
| eloquent | fluent in speech or writing |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| vestige | remnant: a visible trace or sign of something that no longer exists |
| tribulations | distress: trying experiences |
| rhapsodic | elated: overjoyed: ecstatic |
| intimated | hinted: implied: suggested |
| beleaguered | surrounded by so as to prevent escape: harassed |
| indolently | lazily |
| eclipsed | surpassed: outshined |
| tumultuously | in an agitated manner: with great commotion |
| perturbation | great disturbance |
| desolation | sorrow: grief: woe |
| jauntily | with an easy and sprightly manner or bearing |
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