vocab last chap

Question 1

Crucible

Answer 1

A ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to high temperatures

Question 2

Émeciated

Answer 2

Abnormally thin or weak especially because of illness or lack of food

Question 3

Veiled

Answer 3

Wearing or being covered by a veil
!! Not openly declared or expressed
- expressed in an indirect way

Question 4

Despair

Answer 4

The complete loss or abscence of hope

Question 5

Wallow

Answer 5

Area of mud !
- wallow of a person: indulge in an unrestrained way in something !! Something that creates a pleasurable sensation

Question 6

Grandeur

Answer 6

Splendor or impressiveness especially of appearance or style
!! High rank or social importance

Question 7

Ailing

Answer 7

In poor health

Question 8

Audible

Answer 8

Something you can hear, able to be heard

Question 9

Plead

Answer 9

Make an emotional appeal ( make something emotional )

Question 10

Collective

Answer 10

Done by people acting as a group

Question 11

Automatons

Answer 11

Robots ( simile and comparison to refer to a person who seems to act in a mechanical or unemotional way )

Question 12

Sustain

Answer 12

Maintain , persist
(strengthen or support something physically and mentally)

Question 13

Deprive

Answer 13

Deny a person or place the possession or use of something

Question 14

Principle

Answer 14

A fundamental truth or proposition that serves the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning.

Question 15

Ceasing

Answer 15

Bring or come to an end , STOPPING

Question 16

Excruciating

Answer 16

Intensely painful, extremely painful

Question 17

Poignant

Answer 17

Profound meaningful, evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

Question 18

Corpse

Answer 18

A dead body ( normally of a human body )

Question 19

Melancholy

Answer 19

A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

Question 20

Comrade

Answer 20

A fellow member of a group or organisation
( a companion who shares activities or is a fellow member of an organization )