Dickinson Nature Vocab

Question 1

Accretion

Answer 1

growth or increase by gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter

Question 2

Affable

Answer 2

friendly/familiar

Question 3

Amiable

Answer 3

friendly/familiar

Question 4

Avuncular

Answer 4

kind towards younger or less experienced person

Question 5

Congenial

Answer 5

friendly/familiar

Question 6

Cordial

Answer 6

friendly/familiar

Question 7

Crepuscular

Answer 7

resembling or relating to twilight

Question 8

Duplicitous

Answer 8

sneaky

Question 9

Effusion

Answer 9

act/process of being poured out

Question 10

Emanate

Answer 10

if smth emanates from somewhere, it comes from there
a force that is a manifestation of God

Question 11

Equivocation

Answer 11

use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or avoid commitment
eg. “without equivocation”

Question 12

Exult

Answer 12

to celebrate/revel in

Question 13

Ineffectual

Answer 13

fail to do what supposed too

Question 14

Innocuous

Answer 14

beign/harmless

Question 15

Metamorphosis

Answer 15

complete transformation

Question 16

Plentitude

Answer 16

great quantity

Question 17

Protean

Answer 17

mutable/changeable

Question 18

Refulgent

Answer 18

shining very brightly

Question 19

Replete

Answer 19

filled / well-supplied

Question 20

Phallicise

Answer 20

masculinise

Question 21

Sublime

Answer 21

great excellence or beauty

Question 22

transcience

Answer 22

ephemeral

Question 23

Uncanny

Answer 23

unsettling

Question 24

Zenith

Answer 24

the high point - most powerful moment