Chapter One-six vocabulary Flashcards
Victorian era
1800s, Queen Victoria ruled, England was the most powerful nation in the world
Gothic
Germanic language, pointed arches, find buttresses, large windows, and elaborate tracery
Idolatrous
Worshiping idols
Diligence
Careful and persistent work or effort
Obeisance
Deferential respect, through a gesture
Solemn
Formal, dignified, serious
not cheerful or smiling
Deep sincerity
Prodigious
Unnatural,abnormal, remarkably or impossibly
great in extent,size,or degree
Salient
Most noticeable or important
to stand on hind paws
Imperious
Assuming power or authority without justification
arrogant or domineering
Intonation
The rise and fall of the voice in speaking
Aquiline
Like an eagle
Nose is hooked or curved
Saturnine
Manor of slow and gloomy
Persons features dark in coloring
mysterious, moody
Preternatural
Beyond what’s normal or natural
Diffuse
Spread or a cause to spread out over a wide area, or large amount of people
not concentrated
Prosaic
Unromantic
Having style or diction of prose
Sanguine
Optimistic or positive
a blood red color
Precipice
Very steep rock face or cliff
Veritable
Used as an intensifier, often to qualify metaphor
Nocturnal
Awake at night
Acumen
The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions
Ribald
Refering to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way
Ponderous
Dull, laborious, or excessively solemn
Slow and clumsy because of great weight
Assiduously
To be methodical, careful, and very persistent
Dictatorial
Ruler with total power
