Things Fall Apart Vocab.
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ckatelynook on February 10, 2010
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Pre-Ap World Literature; Vocabulary;
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Plaintive | expressing sorrow or melancholy |
| revered | to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate |
| imperious | domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing |
| capricious | subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic |
| malevolent | wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell or taking leave |
| dynamism | any of various theories or philosophical systems that seek to explain phenomena of nature by the action of force |
| poignant | keenly distressing to the feelings |
| copiously | large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful |
| accord | proper relationship or proportion; harmony |
| specious | apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible |
| manifest | readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain |
| pandemonium | wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos |
| esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite |
| approbation | official approval or sanction |
| voluble | characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative |
| orator | a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, esp. one of great eloquence |
| luxuriant | producing abundantly, as soil; fertile; fruitful; productive |
| undiminished | to not grow smaller, decrease, or disappear |
| quarreled | an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations |
| incipient | beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage |
| multitude | a great number gathered together; crowd; throng |
| Duly | in a due manner; properly; fittingly |
| Lamentation | the act of lamenting or expressing grief |
| Esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite |
| Transfixed | to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc. |
| Guttural | of or pertaining to the throat |
| Console | to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of |
| Inadvertent | of, pertaining to, or characterized by lack of attention |
| Calamity | a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury |
| Decreed | a formal and authoritative order, esp. one having the force of law |
| Requisite | required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable |
| Affirmation | the assertion that something exists or is true |
| Ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious |
| Abomination | a vile, shameful, or detestable action, condition, habit, etc |
| Evangelists | a preacher of the gospel |
| Excrement | waste matter discharged from the body, esp. feces |
| Dialect | a provincial, rural, or socially distinct variety of a language that differs from the standard language, esp. when considered as substandard |
| Benevolently | characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings |
| Derisive | characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking |
| Enthralled | to captivate or charm |
| Persevered | to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly |
| Miscreant | depraved, villainous, or base |
| Degenerate | to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate |
| Impotent | without force or effectiveness |
| Derision | ridicule; mockery |
| Taboo | proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable |
| Caste | any class or group of society sharing common cultural features |
| Emanation | Something that issues from a source; an emission |
| Atonement | satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends |
| Blasphemes | to speak irreverently of God or sacred things; utter impieties. |
| Ostracize | to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc |
| Exclude | to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of |
| Expedient | tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances |
| Idolatrous | of or pertaining to idolatry; blindly adoring |
| Bereaved | greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a loved one |
| Profane | characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious |
| Imminent | likely to occur at any moment; impending |
| Wan | pale or withdrawn |
| Desecrated | destroyed; torn apart and demolished; made less or unclean |
| Palavers | profuse and idle talk; chatter |
| Pauper | a person without any means of support, esp. a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity |
| Sonorous | giving out or capable of giving out a sound, esp. a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place |
| Sacrilege | the violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred |
| Resolute | firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion |
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