Heart Of Darkness Flashcards
Assegais
A southern African tree having wood used for making spears
Alacrity
Prompt and eager readiness
Cipher
A secret method of writing
Conflagration
A great and destructive fire
Diaphanous
(Of fabric) light, delicate, and almost transparent
Disinterred
Unearthed; having dug up something buried
Drollery
Something that has a humorous or odd quality
Estuary
The mouth of a large river where it’s flow is affected by ebb and flow tides
Farcical
Broadly or extravagantly humorous
Fecund
Fruitful in offspring or vegetation
Harlequin
A clown or buffoon
Jocose
Characterized by joking; jesting; humorous
Legionnaire
A member of any legion
Lugubrious
Exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
Mizzenmast
The after and shorter mast of a yawl
Obsequiously
Marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
Propitiatory
Intended to reconcile of appease
Rapacity
Giving to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed
Recrudescence
New outbreak after a period of inactivity
Sepulcher
A tomb; grave
Serried
Crowded or pressed together
Tenebrous
Dark, gloomy, or obscure
Wantonly
Done maliciously or unjustifiably
Worsted
Compact yarn from long wool fibers
Wraith
A visible spirit