Heart Of Darkness Vocab Flashcards
Somnambulist
an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (as walking) are performed
Insipid
- lacking taste or savor : tasteless
- lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull, flat
Lugubrious
- mournful; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
- dismal <a> </a>
Diaphanous
- used to describe cloth that is very thin and light
- characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through <a></a>
Athwart
- across especially in an oblique direction
- in opposition to the right or expected course
Declivity
- downward inclination
- a descending slope
Recrudescence
-a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity : renewal <a></a>
Alacrity
-promptness in response : cheerful readiness
Propitiatory
Intending to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease
Indissolubly
not dissoluble; especially : incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken : permanent
Volubility
- talking a lot in an energetic and rapid way
- easily rolling or turning : rotating
- characterized by ready or rapid speech : glib, fluent
Trenchant
- sharply perceptive : penetrating <a></a>
- clear-cut, distinct </a>
Rapacious
- excessively grasping or covetous
- living on prey
- ravenous <a></a>
Prevaricator
-to deviate from the truth : equivocate
Conflagration
- a large destructive fire
- a war or conflict
Gesticulate
to make gestures especially when speaking
Sagacious
-of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning -caused by or indicating acute discernment (wise)
Implacable
not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated
Edifying
instructive or informative in a way that improves the mind or character
Thrall
- a state of servitude or submission
- a state of complete absorption
Perdition
-archaic : utter destruction
b obsolete : loss
-eternal damnation, hell
Recondite
- 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
Prodigious
- causing amazement or wonder
- extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree
Jocose
- (adj) given to joking : merry
- characterized by joking : humorous
Languor
- (noun)weakness or weariness of body or mind
- listless indolence or inertia
Fecund
- (adj)fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific
- intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree <a></a>
Tenebrous
- (adj)shut off from the light : dark, murky
- hard to understand : obscure
- causing gloom
Obtrude
-to thrust out : extrude
