Night Flashcards
Hooligan
N
a hoodlum or trouble maker
Sanctity
N
holiness
Queue
N/V
a line
to make or form a line
Refuge
N
a shelter or place of safety/comfort
Imperceptibly
Adv
scarcely/slightly able to be seen or noticed or understood
Gallows
N
a structure for hanging
Raucus
Adj
wild, rowdy, disorderly, rough, harsh, crazy, chaotic
Lamentation
N
a feeling of grief, sorrow, or sadness
Annihilate
V
to destroy or completely ruin
Automatons
N
a robotic/mechanical figure or thing
an individual that acts robotically
Bereaved
N/V/Adj
one who is sad, lonely, empty
to make sad through loss
sad, lonely, empty
Encumbrance
N
a burden or hinderance
Semblance
N
a likeness to something else (most often appearance)
Apathy
N
a lack of interest, emotion, care, or concern
Indifference
N
a lack of interest, emotion, care, or concern
Hillock
N
a small hill or mound
Resistance
N
opposition to power; the act of holding out against or the refusal to something
Grimace
N/V
an expression of pain or disapproval
to express pain or disapproval
Diplomacy
N
the art of conducting negotiations
Billeted
V/Adj/N
to lodge or house
Ghetto
N/Adj
a section of the city that is highly populated by members of a certain ethnic or minority group due to economic/social pressure
Treatise
N
a very detailed and long way of writing that is very formal and focuses on the principles of a certain subject
Anecdotes
N
a short and strange incident or event of interesting or amusing nature
Deportation
N
the act of expelling an alien or transporting someone from his country
Hermetically
Adj
sealed air tight
Pious
Adj
observant of religion
Abominable
Adj
a very bad poor inferior or hateful
Truncheon
N/V
a club
to club
Incite
V
to encourage to act
Monocle
N
an eyeglass for one eye
Paternal
Adj
being or being similar to a father
Notorious
Adj
unfavorably known
Harangued
N/V
a long speech
to make a long speech
Colic
N
sudden pain in the abdomen or bowels
Reverie
N
a daydream
Base
N
morally low and dishonorable
