Dickinson Despair Vocab

Question 1

Abjure/ Abnegate

Answer 1

to renounce / reject

Question 2

Ambivalent

Answer 2

mixed or contradictory feelings

Question 3

Ancillary

Answer 3

providing support to the primary activities

Question 4

Anguish

Answer 4

great mental suffering or pain

Question 5

Depersonalisation

Answer 5

being outside of your own feelings/mind/body

Question 6

Enervating

Answer 6

causing one to feel drained of energy and vitality

Question 7

Evocative

Answer 7

bringing strong images or feelings to mind

Question 8

Fatalism

Answer 8

the belief all events are pre-determined and therefore inevitable (nihilism)

Question 9

Incorrigible

Answer 9

unteachable

Question 10

Indefatigable

Answer 10

persisting tirelessly

Question 11

Illusory

Answer 11

based on illusion

Question 12

Liturgical

Answer 12

public worship - ceremonial

Question 13

Lugubrious

Answer 13

looking and sounding sad and dismal

Question 14

Morass

Answer 14

complicated/ confused situation

Question 15

Paradoxical

Answer 15

absurd or contradictory

Question 16

Perturbation

Answer 16

state of anxiety and agitation

Question 17

Plangent

Answer 17

a deep, loud sound

Question 18

Ponderous

Answer 18

slow and laborious because of weight

Question 19

Propulsive

Answer 19

quality of driving or pushing forwards

Question 20

Pugnacious

Answer 20

ready to quarrel/fight

Question 21

Quandary

Answer 21

state of perplexity or uncertainty in a difficult situation

Question 22

Oblique

Answer 22

indirect

Question 23

Subservient

Answer 23

obey other unquestioningly

Question 24

Subsumed

Answer 24

absorbed or submerged within something else