English Story Vocab Test Flashcards
Beleaguered
Lay siege to,be set with difficulties.
Asetic
Practicing severe self discipline
Fanatic
To have excessive zeal/ excitement
Remorse
Deep regret or guilt
Ruse
A trick
Silhouetted
Dark shape against light outline
Bludgeon
Thick stick with heavy end
Despairingly
Hopelessness
Modesty
Not revealing
Monotony
Repetitive
Nourishment
Food or other substances necessary for growth.
Pandemonium
Wild,noisey
Succession
Putting things in order
Bravado
False show of courage or defiance
Degradation
Humiliation
Exuberance
Condition of unrestrained joy
Futile
Having no useful result
Impotent
Powerless
Nostalgia
a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
Ostensibly
apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.
Perverse
Stubbornly contrary
Poignantly
Profoundly moving matter
Centrubution
Something given in repayment usually as a punishment
Squalor
Filthy condition