Summer Reading Vocab Flashcards
Supplication
One who expresses a humble and sincere appeal to somebody who has power to grant the request
POS: noun
S:
Suppliant
One who expresses a humble and sincere appeal to somebody who has power to grant the request
POS: noun
S:
Enigmatic
Having a quality of mystery and ambiguity and so difficult to understand or interpret
POS: adjective
S: mysterious
Pestilence
An epidemic of a highly contagious or infectious disease such as bubonic plague
POS: noun
S: plague
Countenance
A persons face or facial expression
POS: noun
S: appearance
Ravenous
Extremely hungry
POS: adjective
S: famished
Incited
To stir to action; usually negative
S: instigated
Insolence
An incidence of having or showing an aggressive lack if respect in speech or behavior
S: disrespectful
Eloquently
Expressing a feeling or thought clearly, memorably it movingly
S: poetically
Treacherous
Involving hidden dangers or hazards
S: unsafe
Unremitting
Continuing, persisting, or recurring without diminishing or ceasing
S: persistent
Forebodings
A feeling that something bad is going to happen
Defile
To corrupt or ruin something
S: vandalize
Abomination
Something that is immoral, disgusting, or shameful
S: perversion
Abhorrent
Arousing strong feelings or repugnance or disapproval
S: despicable
Malevolent
A manner of having or showing a desire to harm others
S: wicked or evil
Distainfully
In a manner if extreme contempt or disgust for something or somebody
S: arrogantly
Manifests
To make something evident by showing or demonstrating it very clearly
S: reveals
Base
Lacking proper social values or moral principles
S: immoral
