Eng 2 Stories 2 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 doughty | brave |
| maligned | spoken ill of |
| credulity | tendency to believe too readily |
| prosaic | commonplace |
| avaricious | greedy for riches |
| furtively | secretly |
| fusillade | like the rapid firing of firearms |
| foreboding | feeling that something bad will happen |
| tummult | noisy commotion |
| loomed | appeared in a large or threatening form |
| apprenticed | assigned to work |
| raked | scratched |
| stupor | numb |
| deranged | onsettled |
| convalescents | people who are recovering from illness |
| banal | dull or stale because of overuse |
| expedient | convenient |
| importunity | persistence in requesting |
| contemplation | thoughtful inspection |
| insatiable | unable to be satisfied |
| warrens | mazelike passages |
| titanic | powerful |
| paranoia | mental disorder characterised by delusions of persception |
| tremulous | trembling |
| psychopathic | with a dangerous mental disorder |
| supernal | celestial or divine |
| itinerary | route |
| indigence | poverty |
| tactiturn | preferring not to talk |
| rheumatic | suffering from a painful disease of the joints |
| vestibule | small entrance hall |
| zenith | highest point |
| countenance | exprsesion on a person's face |
| veracity | truthfulness |
| guileless | without slyness or cunning |
| prodigious | enormous |
| sublimity | noble |
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