| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Morbid | Abnormally gloomy or focused on death and destruction |
| Futility | lacking in any hope of success |
| misanthrope | one who hates human kind |
| splice | to join together or interweave |
| residue | remnant, what remains after something is removed |
| elegiac | expressing sorrow for something or someone now gone |
| denounce | to pronounce that something is evil or wrong |
| abomination | something extremely disgusting or hateful |
| pretext | a pretended motive which disguises someone's real motive (He made up a pretext so that his friend wouldn't realize why he was really looking in her notebook.) |
| privy | sharing in the knowledge of something secret ("He was privy to top secret information".) |
| lamentation | an expression of extreme grief |
| foray | a sudden attack or advance into enemy territory |
| taciturn | someone who dislikes talking |
| nondescript | not easily described, not belonging to any particular group |
| affliction | the cause of pain or suffering |
| incessant | unstopping |
| voluble | given to talking a lot, very quickly |
| petulant | peevish and sulky |
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