Vocab Flashcards
Incendiary
Tending to inflame the senses, inflammatory
Laureate
Persons who achieves distinction in a particular field
Eminent
High in station, rank, or repute; prominent, distinguished
Emphemeral
Lasting a very short time; short :lived
Desicated
Dehydrated or powdered
Defile
Any narrow passage, especially between mountains
Paurity
Smallness or quantity,scarcity; scantiness
Fissure
A narrow opening produced by the separation of parts; crevice
Labyrinth
In intricate culmination of paths or passages and which it is difficult to find one’s way or to reach the exit
Posit
To lay down or as soon as a fact or principal
Enigmatic
Perplexing; mysterious
Travails
Pain, English you’re suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship
Equanimity
Mental or emotional stability of composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness, equailibrium
Banalities
The condition or quality of being devoid or reshnesser originality
Eremtic
Hermit or recluse, especially under a religious vow
Recondite
Dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter; beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding
Asepticism
The idea that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self denial
Paradoxically
Not being the normal or usual kind: self contradictions
Hubris
Excessive pride or self confidence; arrogance
Epistle
Formal, dictated writing; a poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters
