Vocab Words Flashcards
Seraphic, seraph
Adjective
Angel like , happy blissful sublime
“A seraphic smile”
Seraph noun (Angelic being)
Prostate
Adjective
Lying stretched out on the ground with ones face downward
“The prostate figure”
Verb
To do that usually in reverence or submission
“She prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church “
Ablution
Noun
the act of washing oneself (humorously formal) ?
Or
To ceremoniously wash parts of the body or sacred containers.
Anemone
Noun
A type of plant short for sea anemone
“A sea anemone floated about.”
Pusillanimous
Adjective
Showing lack of courage/ determination; timid
Egalitarianism (noun)
Belief that all people are equal
Scopophillia/ scopophillic
Noun
Taking sexual pleasure from just looking at erotic things. (Pornography )
The way he looked at my feet was uncomfortably scopophilic.
Iterative , iteration
Adj.
Repetitive in speech.
The repetition of a process or utterance
“He learned through iteration”
Hackneyed
Adj
Overused, banal
Used too often to be interesting or thoughtful, trite
Platitudinous (synonym)
Platitudinous
Adj.
hackneyed, unoriginal, trite
Metonymy / metonymic
Is a figure of speech used when something is called not by its name but by the name of something associated with the meaning of that thing or concept.
Noun
Intertextuality
The relationship between text, especially literary ones.
“The intertextuality between two novels with the same setting. “
Rendition
Noun
A interpretation or performance of something using film/music
sending a criminal to covertly be interrogated in a different country with less rigorous regulation for the humane treatment of prisoners.
Iconography
Noun
Visual images or symbols used in a work of art or the study/ interpretation of these.
A lot of portraits / illustrations
“Great iconography”
Calibrate
Verb
To measure precisely, can be by marking or adjusting the standard form to use in a more accurate /exact way.
“She calibrated her
