Chapter 10-15 Vocab Flashcards
Permanent, not being able to be forgotten or removed.
Indelibly
A very small amount of money paid to someone as wage or allowance.
Pittance
A person whose job is to help people in hospitals with their financial and social problems.
Almoner
Regard with distaste or hatred.
Abhor
Reserved, not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily.
Reticent
A period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.
Vigil
A sculpture or model of a person.
Effigy
Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.
Indignation
Persuade someone out of doing something or to not do something.
Dissuading
The study of insects.
Entomology
Not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered; final.
Irrevocable
Deserving or arousing pity.
Piteous
Suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it.
Surmise
An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
Conjecture
An expert judge in matters of taste.
Connoisseur
Roughly or Rowdily.
Ruffianly
Of the nature of, due to, or characterized by deep respect for someone or something.
Reverential
Not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties.
Inexorably
A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot.
Quagmire
Noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
Miasmatic
