Vocabulary List 9 Flashcards
Abyssal
Impossible to comprehend; unfathomable
Of or reading to the bottom waters of the ocean depths
Commodious or Commodiously
Comfortably or conveniently spacious; roomy
Didactic or Didactically or Didacticism
Designed or intended to teach, especially excessively
Teaching or intending to teach moral lessons
Enthrall or Enthralling or Enthalled
To hold temporarily spellbound; charm, enchant, captivate
To hold in or reduce to slavery
Hallmark
A distinguishing characteristic, trait, or feature
A mark put on an article to indicate origin, purity, or genuiness
Hew
To strike with cutting blows (as with an ax)
To carve, shape, or smooth from a substance
To conform, adhere (to a code or principle)
Inexorable or Inexorably
Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless
Jeopardize or Jepardy
To expose to danger or risk
Ponderous
Of very great weight
Unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size
Oppressively or unpleasantly dull; lifeless
Propitiate or Propitiation
To render favorably inclined: to appease: to conciliate