English Vocab
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purplebright2 on January 22, 2012
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31 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ordain | to order or decree |
| patrimony | property inherited from father |
| baleful | menacing |
| ambrosial | extremely pleasing to the taste, sweet |
| trencher | wooden board or platter |
| cithern | a musical instrument resembling a guitar |
| glutton | a greedy person |
| divine | to perceive intuitively |
| rapine | the violent seizure of someones property |
| audacity | willingness to take bold risks rude or disrespectful behavior |
| shroud | a thing for covering a body or something that envelopes |
| forebode | to caution or to warn |
| pillage | to rob or the act of robbing |
| prudence | carefulness and thoughtfulness |
| lament | a passionate expression of grief or to mourn |
| libation | a drink poured out as an offer to the deity |
| brazen | shameless or impudent, made of brass |
| furl | to gather into a compact roll and bind securely |
| equity | the quality of being fair or impartial the value of something |
| bane | thing causing ruin |
| insidious | intended to entrap or beguile |
| bewail | to express deep sorrow for |
| sheath | cover or case |
| sheathe | to put something in a cover |
| numinous | filled with a sense of presence of divinity |
| lustral | purifying |
| distaff | a stick with two points of or concerning women |
| surmise | suppose something is true without evidence |
| canny | having shrewdness |
| maleficent | doing evil or harm |
| anoint | to consecrate or make sacred - oil |
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