Heart Of Darkness Vocab

Question 1

Somnambulist

Answer 1

an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (as walking) are performed

Question 2

Insipid

Answer 2

• lacking taste or savor : tasteless

- lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull, flat

Question 3

Lugubrious

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• mournful; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
• dismal <a> </a>

Question 4

Diaphanous

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• used to describe cloth that is very thin and light

- characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through <a></a>

Question 5

Athwart

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• across especially in an oblique direction

- in opposition to the right or expected course

Question 6

Declivity

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• downward inclination

- a descending slope

Question 7

Recrudescence

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-a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity : renewal <a></a>

Question 8

Alacrity

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-promptness in response : cheerful readiness

Question 9

Propitiatory

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Intending to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease

Question 10

Indissolubly

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not dissoluble; especially : incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken : permanent

Question 11

Volubility

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• talking a lot in an energetic and rapid way
• easily rolling or turning : rotating
• characterized by ready or rapid speech : glib, fluent

Question 12

Trenchant

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• sharply perceptive : penetrating <a></a>

- clear-cut, distinct </a>

Question 13

Rapacious

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• excessively grasping or covetous
• living on prey
• ravenous <a></a>

Question 14

Prevaricator

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-to deviate from the truth : equivocate

Question 15

Conflagration

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• a large destructive fire

- a war or conflict

Question 16

Gesticulate

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to make gestures especially when speaking

Question 17

Sagacious

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-of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning -caused by or indicating acute discernment (wise)

Question 18

Implacable

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not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated

Question 19

Edifying

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instructive or informative in a way that improves the mind or character

Question 20

Thrall

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• a state of servitude or submission

- a state of complete absorption

Question 21

Perdition

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-archaic : utter destruction
b obsolete : loss
-eternal damnation, hell

Question 22

Recondite

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• difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend, a recondite subject
• of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure recondite fact

Question 23

Prodigious

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• causing amazement or wonder

- extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree

Question 24

Jocose

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• (adj) given to joking : merry

- characterized by joking : humorous

Question 25

Languor

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• (noun)weakness or weariness of body or mind

- listless indolence or inertia

Question 26

Fecund

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• (adj)fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific

- intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree <a></a>

Question 27

Tenebrous

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• (adj)shut off from the light : dark, murky
• hard to understand : obscure
• causing gloom

Question 28

Obtrude

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-to thrust out : extrude