Poetry Vocab Flashcards
Fair (adj.)
- Very pleasing to the eye
- Pale or light-colored hair or skin
If you have fair skin, you have pale complexion. If the weather is far, its a gorgeous day out.
eternal (adj.)
Continuing forever or indefinitely
If something last forever or just feels like it is going to last forever, you could call it eternal, which means that it goes on and on and will never end.
Complexion (n.)
Texture and appearance of the skin of the face; the coloring of a person’s face
Complexion refers to the color of person’s skin, especially the face.
Belie (v.)
To misrepresent / represent falsely; to be in contradiction with
To belie means to contradict.
Beseech (v.)
Ask for or request earnestly
Like you are begging for something.
To seek for something (desperate?)
Base (adj.)
Morally low or mean-spirited; having an ignoble lack of honor or mortality; not adhering to ethical or moral principles
Yelling at or pushing the umpire is considered base (“mean-spirited”) behavior
Twilight (n.)
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a condition of decline following successes
The time just after sunset, when the light is half-faded, but the world is not yet totally dark, is twilight. (Dawn)
Rare (adj.)
Especially good, remarkable, or superlative
There aren’t many of something
Wherefore (n.)
Why / for what reason; the cause or intention underlying an action or situation
It means “why”
Virtue (n.)
- a particular moral excellence
- the quality of doing what is right
- any admirable quality or attribute
The quality of being morally good.
Zesty (adj.)
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- a tart, spicy quality
You put your whole heart and soul into it.
Bear (v.)
Support or hold in a certain manner
To carry to endure. Basically to deal with
Scorn (n., v.)
- lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- open disrespect for a person or thing
- to look down on with disdain
- to reject with contempt
Open disrespect for someone or something
Hail (v.)
- greet enthusiastically or joyfully
- praise loudly and forcefully (ex. “All hail the mighty king!)
- call for (ex. a cab)
- be a native of (ex. to “hail from” somewhere)
To hail someone is to greet them
To tell people your homeland
Hail a cab
ere (conj., prep.)
Before or sooner than
Means before
