Vocab 3 Flashcards
Retrospect
Contemplation of the past, a survey of past time/event
Putrid
In a state of foul decay/decomposition; rotten
Obscure
Not clear in understanding; not expressing meaning clearly
Edifice
A building, especially a large or imposing one
Lucrative
Profitable, moneymaking
Forlorn
Dreary, unhappy, sad, and lonely
Macabre
Gruesome and horrifying; dealing with or representing death, especially in its grimmer aspects
Lacerate
To tear roughly, mangle, distress mentally or emotionally, to wound
Pretentious
Characterized by an assumption of dignity/importance, especially when exaggerated/undeserved
Chalet
A kind of farmhouse, low with wide eves
Patina
A film/covering spreading gradually on another substance, a calcification
Uremic
Afflicted with uremia
Incessant
Ceaseless, unending
Inadvertence
The act it effect of inattention, an oversight
Pathological
Caused by or involving disease, caused by a mentally disturbed condition
Aberrant
Deviating from the right/usual/normal course
Insensate
Without human feeling or sensitivity, cold; without sense of understanding
Enigmatic
Perplexing, mysterious
Etiology
Any study of causes/causation or casualty as in philosophy, biology, or physics
Inimical
Adverse in tendency or effect, unfavorable, harmful, hostile
Libido
All the instinctual energies derived from the id, sexual drive
Dogmatic
Asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner, opinionated
Conflagration
A destructive fire, usually an extensive one
Fetid
Having an offensive odor, stinking
Parricide
The killing of a mother, father, or close relative
Similitude
Likeness or resemblance
Prodigious
Extraordinary in size, amount, extent; wonderful
Noisome
Offensive, harmful to health
Offal
The parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible; rubbish or garbage
Pestilential
Pernicious; harmful; annoyingly troublesome
Upbraid
To find fault with or reproach severely
Expend
To use up, to pay out
Carnage
The ski after of a great number of people as in battle
Anguish
Excruciating or acute pain, distress, or suffering
Depravity
the state or an instance of moral corruption
