Heart Of Darkness Vocab
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sledgekrys on February 5, 2012
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 luminous | bright, shining |
| diaphanous | very sheer and light |
| lugubrious | excessively mournful |
| declivity | a downward slope or bend |
| rapacious | excessively greedy and grasping |
| wanton | un-called for, without regatd for what is right, luxurious |
| prudence | cautious with regard to practical matters |
| moribund | near death |
| superciliousness | the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior |
| sepulcher | tomb, grave, burial place, a cavity in a mensa for conaining relics of matrys |
| beguiled | to charm or divert by trickery, flattery |
| prevaricator | liar |
| sententiously | given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous |
| immutability | unchangeable, not mutuable |
| indefatigable | incapable of ebing tired out, not yielding to fatigue |
| primeval | of or pertaining to the 1st age or ages, espiecially of the world |
| altrustic | unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others |
| evanescent | vanishing, fading away, fleeting, scarcely perceptible |
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