Tom Sawyer Voabulary.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adherent | a follower of something |
| alacrity | prompt and cheerful response |
| allusion | implied or indiret reference; hinting at |
| animosity | harsh feelings, enmity, hatred |
| appease | to pacify in a way that sacrifices principles |
| auspicious | favorable |
| Blanch | to bleach, make white |
| boisterous | rough, rowdy, and stormy |
| clamor | loud noise or shouting |
| clandestine | secret |
| conflageration | a large fire |
| conjecture | a inference or conclusion drawn |
| contempt | scorn, extreme disdain or dislike |
| derision | scoffing at, ridicule |
| desolate | deserted, without inhabitants |
| despotic | ruling opressively |
| disconcerting | upsetting, frustrating |
| discord | lack of agreement |
| disdain | intense dislike |
| ectasy | extreme happiness |
| edifying | instructing and improving spiritually or morally |
| effusion | a pouring forth |
| ensconse | to settle comfortably |
| evanescent | impermanent, fleeting |
| exalt | to praise or glorify to raise in rank |
| felicitous | happy |
| fetter | to restrict by shackling or chaining |
| foliage | leafage |
| forbearance | patience |
| formidable | menancing, causing fear or awe |
| frivolous | lacking in seriousness or importance |
| furitive | secret in a underhanded way |
| gravity | seriousness, importance |
| guile | deceitfulness, duplicity |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment, mirth |
| illustrious | notably outstanding, famous |
| impudent | disrespectful |
| incantation | a spell, written or recited formula of words desighned for a particular effect |
| infallible | incapable of error |
| inundate | to flood, to overflow |
| inveterate | firmly established |
| jingoist | extreme patriot |
| jubilee | a point of rejoicing |
| juncture | a point of joining |
| labyrinthine | like a maze, very convolted |
| lugubrious | excessively mournful |
| magnanimity | having a lofty, generous spirit |
| menagerie | a collection of live wild animals on exhibition |
| metaphoricallly | compared nonliterally |
| mirth | gladnessand merriment |
| mortify | to humiliate, to wound pride |
| mutinous | rebellious, unruly |
| oblivion | state of being forgotten |
| obtrude | to thrust out |
| odious | deserving hate or contempt |
| omnious | threatning |
| omniscience | state of being all-knowing |
| opulence | wealth |
| ostentatious | showy |
| plapable | tangible, easily noticable |
| perennial | lasting for many years |
| ponderous | very heavy |
| portent | a sighn of forewarning |
| precarious | dangerous, risky |
| precipice | a very steep cliff |
| prevalent | generally or widely accepted |
| prodigy | one with exceptional talents |
| ravenous | urgently eager for food |
| reconcile | to reestablish friendship |
| relish | to take great pleasure or delight in |
| revere | to honor |
| sinuous | bending in and out in a snake or wavy way |
| soliloquy | a speach or dramatic monolouge made to oneself to reveal thoughts |
| stealthy | acting in a secret or sneaky way |
| sublime | exalt, noble, uplifting |
| subterranean | below ground |
| sumptuous | lavish, luxurious |
| supplication | begging, humbly asking for a favor |
| tempestuous | turbulent, stormy |
| transparent | quality of being able to be seen through, clear |
| plausible | seemingly acceptable, believable |
| trifling | not significant, frivolous |
| venerate | to honor, to revere |
| vexation | discomfort or distress |
| voluptuous | pleasurable to the senses, sensuous |
| zephyr | a gentle breeze |
| wistful | having unfulfilled longing or yearning |
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