7th Reading - SWTWC Vocab Chapter 28 -40 Flashcards
Sit, lie, or stand in a lazy, relaxed way.
Lolled
Used for emphasis, especially to express anger or annoyance.
Confounded
A sea monster, identified in different passages with the whale and the crocodile.
Leviathan
Heavy material, such as gravel, sand, iron, or lead, placed low in a vessel to improve its stability.
Ballast
Un hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps.
Scuttling
Moist, disagreeable moistness, sorrow, sad tears.
Dank Lamentations
A huge, powerful, and overwhelming force or institution.
Juggernaut
Slowly decay or disintegrate, especially because of neglect.
Mouldered
Not aware of.
Oblivious
Relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail. In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy.
Baroque
Thrust or spread (things, especially limbs or fingers) out and apart.
Splayed
Unfortunate
Hapless
A mute character in traditional pantomime, typically masked and dressed in a diamond-patterned costume.
Harlequin
An individual leaf of paper or parchment, numbered on the recto or front side only, occurring either loose as one of a series or forming part of a bound volume.
Folios
A medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life.
Alchemical
Excessively proud of oneself or one’s achievements; overly vain.
Vainglorious
Having or enclosed by a cloister, as in a monastery.
Cloistered
Is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. It is considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the Sumerian city of Uruk
Cuneiform
Give new life or vigor to.
Revivifying
Was a science of character divination, faculty psychology, theory of brain and what the 19th-century
Phrenologists
A slipping forward or down of one of the parts or organs of the body.
Prolapse
Put forward (an idea, theory, or point of view) for consideration by others.
Propounding
Approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively.
Accosted
Hag
Crone
To move towards quietly.
Stealthily
Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.
Audacious
