| Term | Definition |
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| abominable | – adj. causing moral revulsion; very unpleasant |
| antiphonal | – adj. 1) a musical style that is sung, recited, or played alternately by two groups 2) occurring or responding in two groups |
| blatant | – adv. In an unsubtle and unashamed manner |
| brandishing | – verb waving or flourishing (esp. a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement |
| conviction | – noun 1) a formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offense by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law 2) a firmly held belief or opinion |
| constrainedly | – adv. 1) forced, compelled, or obliged 2) stiff or unnatural; uneasy or embarrassed (a constrained manner) |
| contrite | – adj. feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt |
| contemptously | – adv. showing contempt (feeling that a person or thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn); scornful |
| corpulent | – adj. (of a person) fat |
| daunting | – adj. seeming difficult to deal with in anticipation; intimidation |
| demented | – adj. suffering from dementia |
| demure | – adj. (of a woman or her behavior) reserved, modest, and shy |
| enmity | – noun the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something |
| ebullience | – noun 1) cheerful and full of energy 2) archaic or poetic/literary |
| expansively | – adv. 1) covering a wide area in terms of space or scope; extensive or wide-ranging 2) (of a person or manner) open, demonstrative, and communicative 3) tending toward economic or political expansion |
| exasperation | – noun intense irritation; infuriation |
| exulting | – verb showing or feeling elation or jubilation, esp. the result of a success |
| furtive | – adj. 1) attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive 2) suggestive of guilt or nervousness |
| immured | – verb enclosed or confined against their will |
| inimical | – adj. 1) tending to obstruct or harm 2) unfriendly; hostile |
| incredulous | – adj. unwilling or unable to believe something |
| inscrutable | – adj. impossible to understand or interpret |
| impalpable | – adj. 1) unable to be felt by touch 2) not easily comprehended |
| iridescent | – adj. showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles |
| impercious | – adj. 1) not allowing fluid to pass through 2) unable to be affected by |
| jeeringly | – adv. to make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice |
| lamentably | – adv. 1) deplorably bad or unsatisfactory 2) full of or expressing sorrow or grief |
| loathing | – noun intense dislike or disgust |
| ludicrous | – adj. so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing; ridiculous |
| mirages | – noun 1) an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions esp. the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road 2) something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so |
| mooning | – verb 1) behave or move in a listless and aimless manner; act in a dreamily infatuated manner 2) expose one’s buttocks to someone in order to insult or amuse them |
| mortification | – noun 1) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated 2) subdue by self-denial or discipline 3) be affected by gangrene or necrosis |
| multitudinous | – adj. very numerous; consisting of or containing many individuals or elements; vast |
| mutinously | – adv. refusing to obey the orders of a person in authority; willful or disobedient |
| myopia | – noun nearsightedness; lack of imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight |
| myriad | – noun 1) a countless or extremely great number 2) a unit of ten thousand |
| obtuseness | – noun 1) annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand 2) more than 90 ° and less than 180 ° |
| officious | – adj. 1) assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, esp. with regard to petty or trivial matters 2) intrusively enthusiastic in offering help or advice; interfering |
| opalescence | – noun showing varying colors as an opal does |
| pall | – noun 1) a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb 2) an ecclesiastical pallium |
| parody | – noun an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect |
| perilous | – adj. full of danger or risk; exposed to imminent resk of disaster or ruin |
| preposterous | – adj. contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous |
| propitiatingly | – adv. to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate |
| purged | – verb rid of an unwanted feeling, memory, or condition, typically giving a sense of cathartic release |
| recrimination | – noun an accusation in response to one from someone else |
| sanctity | – noun 1) the state of quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly 2) ultimate importance and inviolability |
| specious | – adj. 1) superficially plausible, but actually wrong 2) misleading in appearance, esp. misleadingly attractive |
| somberly | – adj. dark or dull in color or tone; gloomy; oppressively solemn or sober in mood; grave |
| strident | - adj. loud and harsh; grating |
| succulent | – adj. tender, juicy, and tasty |
| swarthiness | – adj. dark-skinned |
| tacitly | – adj. understood or implied without being stated |
| talisman | – noun an object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck |
| theological | – adj. of or relating to the study of theology |
| tempestuously | – adj. 1) characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion 2) very stormy |
| tremulously | – adv. shaking or quivering slightly; timid, nervous |
| truculently | – adv. eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant |
| ululation | – verb to howl or wail as an expression of strong emotion, typically grief |
| vicissitudes | – noun 1) a change of circumstances of fortune, typically on whtat is unwelcome or unpleasant 2) alternation between opposite or contrasting things |
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