Existential Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 palaver | a long parley between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication; misleading or beguiling speech |
| insipidity | tastelessness, dullness, flatness in terms of interest |
| languid | drooping or flagging as from exhaustion; sluggish in character; listless, lacking force or quickness of movement |
| indolent | causing little or no pain; slow to develop or heal; averse to activity, habitually lazy |
| pertinacious | adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose or design; perversely persistent, stubbornly unyielding or tenacious |
| prodigious | exiting amazement or wonder; extraordinary in bulk, quantity or degree, enormous |
| enervating | reducing the mental or moral vigor of; lessening the vitality or strength of |
| bohemian | : (a native or inhabitant of Bohemia, or a group of Czech dialects used there); vagabond, wanderer, gypsy; a person (as a writer or artist) living an unconventional life usually in a colony with others |
| anachronistic | something (persons, events, objects or customs) misplaced in chronological time sequence; a sense that something is chronologically out of place, esp. something from a former age that is incongruous with the present one |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance; fragments of pottery vessels or glassware |
| valor | strength of mind or spirit that allows a person to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| morass | marsh, swamp; something that traps, confuses or impedes |
| tumult | a disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices; commotion, riot, hubbub, din; a violent outburst of feeling |
| abyss | a bottomless pit, gulf, or the unending chaos of the old cosmologies; an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
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