Vocab 2 Flashcards
To make something impossible; to prevent something from happening; to prevent someone from doing something
Precluded (verb)
Exemption from punishment (unable to be punished) (immunity to punishment)
Impunity (noun)
Person who takes vengeance
Avenger (noun)
Something or someone that is being killed as sacrifice
Immolation (noun)
A discerning judge of the best in any field often for food
Connoisseurship (noun)
To lay on or set as something to be paid (putting a burden on someone)
Impose upon (verb)
To draw back; start or shrink back as in alarm, horror or disgust
Recoiling (verb but used as adjective)
To attempt; try
Endeavored (verb)
Not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty (stubborn)
Obstinate (adjective)
The coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events
Succession (noun)
An impeding, stopping, preventing (obstacle)
Hindrances (noun)
The correspondence of size, form, and arrangements of parts on opposite sides of something (mere image)
Symmetry (noun)
A sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay
Consternation (noun)
To crouch, as in fear or shame
Cowered (verb)
To cause to indicate at the same time, as one timepiece with another
Synchronizing (verb)