Vocab from Hymn to Intelectual Beauty Flashcards

1
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Creep (verb)

A

Move timdly, discreetly

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2
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Beams

A

Rayons

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3
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Piny

A

Covered with pine

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4
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Hues

A

Colours, shades

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5
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Starlight

A

The light of the stars

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6
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Spread

A

Répandu

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7
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Fled (flee, fled, fled)

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That has run away

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8
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Aught

A

Anything

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9
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That dost

A

That do

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10
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Thine / thou

A

Your / you

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11
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Art thou

A

Are you

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12
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Dim

A

Faible, vaste

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13
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Vale

A

Valley

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14
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Weaves

A

Tisse

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15
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O’er (one syllabe)

A

Over

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16
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Yon mountain-river

A

The mountain-river over there

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17
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Fade

A

Disparaître, s’effacer

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18
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Cast

A

Throw, project

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19
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Gloom

A

Morosité

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20
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Scope

A

Capacity

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21
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Despondency

A

Melancholy, despair

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22
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Hat ever

A

Has ever

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23
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Vain endeavour (“endevva”)

A

Fruitless / vain efforts

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24
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Frail spells

A

frêles sortilèges

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25
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Uttered!

A

Spoken

26
Q

Avail

A

Succeed

27
Q

Sever (vb) (think Severus Snape)

A

Cut, separate

28
Q

Driven

A

Pushed

29
Q

Still

A

Unmoving

30
Q

Unquiet

A

Uncomfortable, tormented

31
Q

Lent (lend, lent, lent)

A

Prêter

32
Q

Awful

A

Awe-inpiring, intimidating

33
Q

Train

A

Procession (of followers)

34
Q

Within

A

Inside

35
Q

Sympathies

A

Compassions, empathy

36
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Wax and wane

A

Increase and decrease

37
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Thou…art

A

You…. are

38
Q

Nourishement

A

Food

39
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Lest!

A

In case (de peur de)

40
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Sought (seek, sought, sought)

A

Looked for

41
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Sped

A

Rushed, ran

42
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Musing

A

Pondering, thinking

43
Q

The lot of life

A

Our destiny (notre sort)

44
Q

Wooing

A

Courting

45
Q

Thy shadow

A

Your shadow

46
Q

Shrieked

A

Screamed

47
Q

Clapsed my hands

A

Joined my hands

48
Q

Vowed

A

Swore, promised

49
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Thee and thine

A

You and yours

50
Q

Vow

A

Promise, oath

51
Q

Streaming eyes

A

Les yeux ruisselants

52
Q

Bowers

A

Berceau, boudoir

53
Q

Zeal!

A

Enthusiasm

54
Q

Outwatched

A

Watched longer than

55
Q

My brow

A

My face (forehead)

56
Q

A lustre

A

A shine

57
Q

My onward life

A

My life moving forward

58
Q

Supply

A

Provide

59
Q

Worship

A

te vénères

60
Q

Fair

A
  1. Beautiful 2. just
61
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Bind

A

Attach, compel, oblige

62
Q

Human kind

A

Humankind, humanity