All things fall apart vocab Flashcards
Wily
adj; skilled at gaining on advantage, deceitful
improvident
adj; not having or showing foresight, thoughtless
callow
adj; inexperienced and immature (a young person)
atone
noun; reparation for any wrongdoing
Voluble
adj; characterized by fluency and readiness of utterance
haggard
adj; looking exhausted and unwell, from fatigue, worry, or suffering
Impending
verb; be about to happen
Incipient
adj; developing into a specified type a role
arduous
adj; involving or requiring strenuous effort, difficult and tiring
perpetuate
verb; typically an undesirable situation or and unfounded belief
harbinger
noun; a person or thing that announces or signals, the approach of another
enthrall
verb; capture the fascinated attention of
expedient
noun; meaning of attaining in the end, which is the immoral
Desolate
Deserted of people, and in a state of bleak, dismal emptiness
Resolute
adj admirably, purposeful, determined, unwavering