Vocab set #2 Flashcards
Noun: Great light, luster or brilliance
Splendor
Synonyms: Magnificence
yet a flood of intense rays rolled throughout, and bathed the whole in a ghastly _______.
Splendor
Adjective: Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
Auditory
Synonyms: Hearing
I have spoken of that condition of the ________nerve which rendered all music.
Auditory
Noun: Plural of rhapsody
Rhapsodies
Synonyms: Ecstasy
The words of one of these ________ I have easily remembered.
Rhapsodies
Adjective: Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister)
Sinister
Synonyms: Ominous
I will not deny that when I called to mind the _______ countenance of the person whom I met upon the staircase.
Sinister
Noun: Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good
Precaution
Synonyms: Care
I had no desire to oppose what I regarded as at best but a harmless _________.
Precaution
Noun: Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
Mockery
Synonyms: Ridicule
the _______ of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face
Mockery
Adjective: (of time) Having passed or slipped by
Elasped
Synonyms: Expired
made our way into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the house
Some days of bitter grief having ______
Elasped
Noun: Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face
Countenance
Synonyms: Tolerate
The pallor of his ______ had assumed
Countenance
Adjective: Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal
Ghastly
Synoynms: Awful
a more ______ hue.
Ghastly
Noun: A character; aspect (figuratively)
Hue
Synoynms: Hue
a more ghastly ____.
Hue
Noun: The property of being big and strong
Huskiness
Synoynms: Hoarseness
The once occasional ________ of his tone was heard no more
Huskiness
Adjective: Trembling, quivering, or shaking
Tremulous
Synonyms: Shaky
and a _____ quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.
Tremulous
Noun: A trembling shake
Quaver
Synonyms: Shake
and a tremulous _____, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.
Quaver
Noun: Something spoken
Utterance
Synoyns: Statement
as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.
Utterance
Noun: Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy
Dominion
Synonyms: Rule, Athority
I struggled to reason off the nervousness which had _______ over me.
Dominion
Verb: Simple past and past participle of endeavor (us)
Endeavored
Synonyms: Attempted
I threw on my clothes with haste and _______ to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen
Endeavored#16
Synonyms: Gauntly
His countenance was, as usual, ______ wan
Cadaverously
Adverb: In a cadaverous manner; like a cadaver
Cadaverously
Adjective: (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
Wan
Synonyms: Pale
His countenance was, as usual, cadaverously ____ — but, moreover, there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes
Wan
Noun: Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear
Hysteria
Synonyms: Frenzor
an evidently restrained ______ in his whole demeanor.
Hysteria
Synonyms: Behavior
an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor.
Demeanor
Noun: The social, non-verbal behaviours (such as body language and facial expressions) that are characteristic of a person (american spelling)
Demeanor
