american lit vocab may
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 prodigality | the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending |
| echolalia | the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person |
| punctilious | strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct |
| montenegro | a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the SW part; an independent kingdom |
| libertine | a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained |
| prig | a person who displays or demands of other pointlessly precise conformity; exaggerated proporiety in a self-righteous manner |
| amorphous | lacking definite form; having no specific shape |
| fortuitously | happening or produced by chance;accidental |
| adventitious | associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part |
| pasquinade | a satire or lampoon, expecially one that ridicules a specific person |
| aesthetic | having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty |
| piety | devotion to religious duties |
| frippery | showy display of elegance |
| dyspepsia | indigestion |
| sallow | sickly, pale-yellow |
| sullen | sulky, glum |
| timorous | full of fear |
| visage | appearance |
| malevolent | wishing evil or harm to others |
| anachronism | somthing that is or seems to be out of its proper time |
| apotheosis | glorification; elevation to divine status |
| abjectness | wretchedness |
| effluvium | an offensive exhalation or smell |
| temerity | foolhardy or heedless disregard of danger |
| evanescently | vanishing or apt to vanish |
| immemorial | extending back beyond memory or record |
| inviolable | safe from danger |
| abrogated | cancelled or nullified |
| lucidity | brightness |
| apikorism | originally meant a jew educated in judaism who denied basic tenets of his faith, like the existence of God, the revelation, the resurrection of the dead. |
| talmud | the most significant collection of the jewish oral tradition interpreting the Torah |
| torah | in its narrowest sense, torah is the first five books of the bible, sometimes called the pentateuch. in its broadest sense, torah is the entire body of jewish teachings. |
| tefillin | leather pouches containing scrolls with passages of scripture, used to fulfill the exhortation to bind the commandments to our hands and between our eyes |
| belligerent | aggresively hostile |
| renown | widespread and high repute;fame |
| allegorical | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms |
| acclaimed | to announce or proclaim with enthusiastic approval |
| goyim | non-jews |
| tzaddik | priest like leader for the hasidim |
| yiddish | the sacred language of the hasidim originating from middle german |
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