Their Eyes Were Watching God Vocab-Set 1 Flashcards
Remorseless (adjective)
Shameless
Sentence: The criminal was sentenced for life because the judge saw that the criminal was remorseless and the crime committed was intolerable.
Sodden (adjective)
Filled with moisture; soaked through
Sentence: Our clothes became sodden because we walked through the rain to our destination.
Languid (adjective)
Lifeless
Sentence: It’s peaceful to take a languid walk through the quiet beach after a stressful day at work.
Dissolution (noun)
Disintegration of
Sentence: The dissolution of their marriage occurred because of the spouse’s infidelity to his wife.
Desecrating (verb)
To take away the sacredness of
Sentence: Mathew was banned from the temple because he desecrated it by shouting very loudly.
Compel (verb)
To force
Sentence: She rejected my proposal and put the box in my pocket, compelling me to keep the ring.
Conjectures (verb)
To predict from incomplete evidence
Sentence: I’ve made various conjectures in how the victim could have been murdered.
Malice (noun)
The deliberate desire to harm another.
Sentence: She recoiled inwardly at the malice in his eyes.
Mien (noun)
A way of looking
Sentence: Nikos has the mien of a young Greek monk and the young Greek monk wants it back.
Incredulous (adjective)
Disbelieving
Sentence: He couldn’t blame her for looking incredulous after hearing what happened to her family.
Dolefully (adjective)
Looking sorrowfully
Sentence: She had a doleful expression on her face after she heard the news of her parents’ death.
Surly (adjective)
Hostile and uncivil
Sentence: Before she could finish her explanation, her brothers clamored into the room, each looking very surly.
Temerity (noun)
Foolishness, rash boldness
Sentence: He now bitterly regretted his temerity in braving the danger.
Dilemma (noun)
Puzzle
Juggling school, work, and her siblings had put Jenna in a dilemma when she to work a double shift that day.
Fractious (adjective)
Hard to manage, unruly
I didn’t realize things could get so fractious so quickly until I started working in the day care.
Decorum (noun)
Rules for proper behavior
Sentence: She accepted his report without displaying her sadness but with decorum.
Chasten (verb)
To subdue, to humble
Sentence: Chastened by the experience, I never took upon such behavior again.
Prostrating (adjective)
Lying down in submission
Sentence: Men, women children, were all prostrated on the floor by the orders of the soldiers.
Stolidness (adjective)
Showing no emotion, impassive
Sentence: His stolid expression led the judge to be confused on the situation of whether the defendant was guilty or innocent.
Commiserated (verb)
To show or feel sorrow for
Sentence: She commiserated with the family for the loss of their loved one.
Ostentatiously (noun)
Conspicuously, obviously
Sentence: He sat at the the table, ostentatiously noting the names of the students who were participating.
Strife (noun)
The act or state of struggling or fighting
Strife tore up nations and caused them to separate
Usurper (noun)
To be where you don’t belong, to take what isn’t yours
Sentence: The citizens rebelled against the usurper, who took the throne by murdering the legitimate heir.
Refracted (verb)
To bend of send off in another direction
Sentence: When light passes from a less dense to a more dense substance, the light is refracted.
