Flashcards: Night
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mcochran-keith 
on January 10, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Prostrate | to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration. |
| Interlude | a short period of time between events (such acts of a play or music) during which something different happens. |
| Robust | strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous. |
| Quarantine | a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease. |
| Apathy | absence of passion, emotion, or excitement; lack of interest or concern for things that others find moving or exciting. |
| Humane | characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed. |
| Livid | enraged or furiously angry; reddish or flushed. |
| Interminable | unending; monotonously or annoyingly continued. |
| Infernal | hellish or diabolical; extremely troublesome. |
| Reprieve | to be excused or pardoned. |
| emaciated | very thin, near starving in appearance |
| crucible | a terrible ordeal or test of human endurance |
| derision | to feel hatred and contempt |