26 Flashcards
Recluse
A person who is solitary and tends to avoid people
Palliate
Make less severe
Succor
Assistance and support in times of hardship
Metamorphose
To change
Abeyant
A state of temporary disuse or suspension
Bootless
Ineffectual useless
Meet
Suitable and proper
Condign
Fitting and deserved
Delimited
Determine the limits or boundaries of
Edacious
Given to eat
Gustatory
Sense of taste
Carnal
Relating to physical and sexual needs
Voluptuous
Luxury or sexual pleasure
Pip
An excellent or attractive person
Nimbus
Cloud
Goad
Provoke or annoy
Enfilades
Volley of gunfire
Fervency
Passionate intensity
Imprecations
A spoken curse
Salvos
Simultaneous discharge of artillery
Couth
Cultured refined and well mannered
Parity
The state of being equal especially regarding status
Bloviation
Talk at length
Patrimony
Property inherited from ones father or ancestor