Faulkner Vocab Flashcards
scuttering
To move with a clattering, scurrying around
myriad
a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things
decorous
characterized by dignified properly in conduct, manner, appearance, or character.
trifling
a matter, affair, or circumstance of trivial importance or significance
abject
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or watched
approbation
approval, commenciation
ubiquity
The state of capacity of being everywhere, especially at the same time
portentious
Ominously significant or indicative
Irremediable
Not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair
travail
painfully difficult or burdensome work: toil
fulcrum
the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body
Tremulous
characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
penurious
extremely stingy, parsimonious, miserly
stertorous
characterized by stertor or heavy snoring
nihilists
those who believe that there is no objective meaning to existence
implacable
not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified. inexorable
calculant
given to thought, calculation
infinitesimal
indefinitely or exceedingly small, minute
fluctuant
fluctuating varying unstable
volitional
the act of willing, choosing, or resolving
suffused
to spread over something with liquid etc
imperviousness
the quality of being impenetrable
turgid
swollen
soporific
quality of making someone sleepy
abetting
to encourage by support, by aid, or approval especially in wrongdoing
surreptitious
to act in a stealthy manner
scoriation
sloppily cut groove characterized by the presence of refuse material from which it was cut.
uniferant
without inference, with no hint of
hillocks
small hills
shoat
a young big just after weening
peremptory
leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal imperative
expiation
the means by which atonement or reparation is made
accretion
an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition
recessional
of or pertaining to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service
circumspection
circumspect observation or action, caution, or prudence.