Existentialism Vocabulary
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Galician | English |
|---|---|
| Palaver |  idle talk; to talk idly |
| Insipidity | dullness |
| Languid | indifferent, without vitality |
| Indolent | lazy |
| Pertinacious | holding stronger to a purpose or a belief; hard to get rid of |
| Prodigious | enormous, huge; wonderful, amazing |
| Enervating | exhausting, devitalizing, depriving of strength |
| Bohemian | free spirited |
| Anachronistic | out of place or chronology |
| Shard | broken piece (esp. pottery) |
| Valor | courage, bravery |
| Retinue | a group of people following a person of importance |
| Morass | bog, marsh, swamp; difficult or troublesome situation |
| Tumult | noisy commotion; confusion; disturbance |
| Abyss | bottomless gulf; anything too big for measurement |
| Valise | a piece of hand luggage |
| Reverie | daydream |
| Succumb | to yield on; give in to |
| Ablution | a washing of the body |
| Piety | devotion to religious duties |
| Allude | to refer to indirectly |
| inimical | hostile; unfriendly |
| Resolve | firm determination |
| Sangfroid | cool self-possession or composure |
| Avert | to turn away; to walk off; to prevent |
| Guileless | innocent and straight forward |
| Cede | to surrender |
| Poseur | one who assumes attitudes or manners merely for effect |
| Vituperative | abusive (as in speech or writing) |
| Extricate | to set (or get) free from physical entanglement or any difficultly |
| Frisson | a shudder; a moment of intense excitement |
| Imbue | to pervade or permeate |
| Truculent | eager to fight or disagree |
| Dervish | member of a Muslim ascetic religious group |
| Denigrate | to belittle on defiance |
| Platitude | a commonplace or trite remark |
| Duplicitous | behaving in a cunning or deceptive manner |
| Ardent | passionate; zealous |
| Stalwart | strong or sturdy; a resolute person |
| Assailant | an attacker |
| Chide | to reprove |
| Balk | to stop and refuse to act; to hesitate |
| Rejoinder | an answer (sometimes a come back or a reply) |
| Adamant | inflexible; unyielding |
| Solace | comfort; consolation |
| Augury | an omen or portent; the practice of divining the future |
| Cower | to shrink or crouch in fear |
| Banal | trite; hackneyed |
| Implacable | not to be appeased;relentless |
| Erudition | learning acquired by studying |
| Providential | decreased by divine guidance of God and fate |
| Decrepitude | a state of being worn out by old age or long use |
| Emendation | scholarly correction in a text |
| Tantamount | equal in effect or value |
| Doggerel | trivial poetry |
| Discomfiting | frustrating; disconcerting |
| Detritus | debris (esp. rock fragments) |
| Montage | a composite picture; a rapid series of film scenes |
| Blithe | cheerful; carefree; lighthearted |
| Exegesis | interpretation of a word or passage (esp. bible) |
| Voluble | talkative; characterized by a great flow of words |
| Entreaty | an earnest request; prayer |
| Self-abasing | humble; critic of self |
| Balustrade | railing |
| Galvanize | to rouse or stir |
| Specious | seeming to be good without being so |
| Impervious | not affected by; incapable of being penetrated (water) |
| Heinous | outrageously evil |
| Sartorial | related to mens clothing |
| Reprobate | an unprincipled person |
| Amanuensis | a secretary |
| Panoptic | including everything visible in one view |
| Disparate | unequal; distinctly different |
| Ambivalence | simultaneous conflicting feelings |
| Spate | an unusually large flow or amount |
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