Dante's Inferno
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demondestructor on May 7, 2012
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cerements | Burial clothes used to wrap a corpse |
| Infamy | Reputation for bad deeds |
| Lecherous | Lustful |
| Escarpment | Long clifflike ridge of land or rock. Cut around for fortification or a defense position. |
| Cupidity | Eager or excessive desire to possess something; greed. |
| Abhor | To detest or loathe. To regard with extreme repugnance. |
| Lamenting | To mourn over |
| Gibbet | Gallows; put to death by hanging. |
| Lintel | A horizontal beam used to span an opening. |
| Chaste | Refraining from sexual intercourse, stainless. |
| Penitence | Regret for sins or faults |
| Torrent | Rushing, violent, overwhelming flow. |
| Avaricious | Greedy |
| Lethe | River of Forgetfulness- (People drank from it when they were being reborn) |
| Styx | River in the Underworld by which the Gods swear binding oaths. (Separates the living from the dead) |
| Acheron | River of Woe- (Charon ferried the dead across) |
| Phlegethon | Third river of Hell; boiling river of blood; travel throughout Circle 7 and 8, freezes in 9. |
| Cocytus | River of Lamentation and wailing. (Those who were not properly buried). |
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