Unit 4 Vocab: Am. Lit
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Privation | Having a lack of what is needed for existence; having something taken away or withheld that the person values greatly. |
| Prodigious | Exciting amazement or wonder, esp. as if due to size, quantity or degree. |
| Recumbent | Leaning or resting as to suggest repose; lying down, or a person who is lying down. |
| Recurrence | A going back in thought or discourse or something that comes up again for consideration; anything that occurs again after time. |
| Relent | To become less severe, harsh, or strict, usually for reasons of humanity; to cease resistance, give in or slacken |
| Remonstrate | To present and urge reasons in opposition to; to say or plead in protest, reproof or opposition. |
| Retribution | Recompense or reward; the dispensing or receiving of reward or punishment, esp. in the hereafter; something given or exacted in recompense, as in punishment. |
| Sanction | A formal decree esp. an ecclesiastical one. The detriment or loss or means of coercion for violation of a law; any consideration or principle that works as a mechanism for enforcing societal standards, as in conscience, police force, cultural disapproval. |
| Saunter | To walk about in a leisurely or idle manner, stroll without immediate or direct purpose. |
| Scarce | Deficient in quantity or number compared with demand; not plentiful or abundant; intentionally absent. |
| Solicitude | Attentive care and protectiveness, esp. with a feeling of anxiety about the condition. |
| Soliloquize | To talk to oneself; to seem as if in a dramatic monologue by talking earnestly about something aloud, but to no one in particular other than oneself. |
| Stratagem | An artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy; any cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end; skill with ruses or trickery. |
| Stygian | Of or relating to the River Styx; extremely dark, gloomy or forbidding. |
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