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Vocab set #2 Flashcards

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Noun: Great light, luster or brilliance

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Splendor

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Synonyms: Magnificence
yet a flood of intense rays rolled throughout, and bathed the whole in a ghastly _______.

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Splendor

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Adjective: Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.

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Auditory

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Synonyms: Hearing
I have spoken of that condition of the ________nerve which rendered all music.

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Auditory

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Noun: Plural of rhapsody

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Rhapsodies

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Synonyms: Ecstasy
The words of one of these ________ I have easily remembered.

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Rhapsodies

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Adjective: Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister)

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Sinister

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Synonyms: Ominous
I will not deny that when I called to mind the _______ countenance of the person whom I met upon the staircase.

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Sinister

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Noun: Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good

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Precaution

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Synonyms: Care
I had no desire to oppose what I regarded as at best but a harmless _________.

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Precaution

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Noun: Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.

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Mockery

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Synonyms: Ridicule
the _______ of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face

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Mockery

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Adjective: (of time) Having passed or slipped by

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Elasped

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Synonyms: Expired
made our way into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the house
Some days of bitter grief having ______

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Elasped

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Noun: Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face

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Countenance

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Synonyms: Tolerate
The pallor of his ______ had assumed

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Countenance

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Adjective: Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal

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Ghastly

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Synoynms: Awful
a more ______ hue.

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Ghastly

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Noun: A character; aspect (figuratively)

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Hue

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Synoynms: Hue
a more ghastly ____.

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Hue

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Noun: The property of being big and strong

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Huskiness

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Synoynms: Hoarseness
The once occasional ________ of his tone was heard no more

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Huskiness

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Adjective: Trembling, quivering, or shaking

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Tremulous

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Synonyms: Shaky
and a _____ quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.

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Tremulous

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Noun: A trembling shake

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Quaver

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Synonyms: Shake
and a tremulous _____, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.

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Quaver

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Noun: Something spoken

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Utterance

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Synoyns: Statement
as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.

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Utterance

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Noun: Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy

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Dominion

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Synonyms: Rule, Athority
I struggled to reason off the nervousness which had _______ over me.

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Dominion

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Verb: Simple past and past participle of endeavor (us)

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Endeavored

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Synonyms: Attempted
I threw on my clothes with haste and _______ to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen

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Endeavored#16

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Synonyms: Gauntly
His countenance was, as usual, ______ wan

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Cadaverously

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Adverb: In a cadaverous manner; like a cadaver

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Cadaverously

35
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Adjective: (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

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Wan

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Synonyms: Pale
His countenance was, as usual, cadaverously ____ — but, moreover, there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes

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Wan

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Noun: Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear

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Hysteria

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Synonyms: Frenzor
an evidently restrained ______ in his whole demeanor.

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Hysteria

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Synonyms: Behavior
an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor.

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Demeanor

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Noun: The social, non-verbal behaviours (such as body language and facial expressions) that are characteristic of a person (american spelling)

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Demeanor

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