Dickinson Despair vocab Flashcards
Abjure/Abnegate (v)
To renounce or reject
Ambivalent (adj)
Having mixed feelings, or contradictory ideas about something or someone
Amourphous (adj)
Without a clearly defined shape or form
Ancillary (adj)
Proving necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, system, person, ect.
Anguish (n)
Great mental pain or suffering
Illusory (adj)
Based on illusion; not real
Liturgical (adj)
Relating to public worship - ceremonial, ritualistic, solemn, ect
Lugubrious (adj)
A thing/person that is sad rather than lively or cheerful
Morass (n)
A complicated or confused situation
Depersonalisation (n)
where you have the feeling of being outside yourself and observing your actions, feelings, or thoughts from a distance
Enervating (adj)
Causing one to feel drained of energy r vitality`
Evocative (adj)
Bringing strong images, memories or feelings to mind
Fatalism (n)
The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable (Nihilism, existentialism)
incorrigible (adj)
Unteachable
Indefatigable (adj)
Persisting tirelessly
Paradoxical (adj)
Seemingly absurd or self contradictory
Perturbation (n)
a state of anxiety and agitation
Plangent (adj)
A deep, loud sound which may be sad
Ponderous (adj)
Slow and clumsy because of great weight
Precarious (adj)
Precarity (n)
when you are not in complete control of events and may fail in what you are doing at any moment
Propulsive (adj)
the quality of driving or pushing forward
Pugnacious (adj)
Someone who is always ready to quarrel or start a fight
Quandary (n)
a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation
Oblique (adj)
Not expressed or done in a direct way
