Vocabulary Quiz 1 Flashcards
flounders
to struggle to move or obtain footing : thrash about wildly
despicable
deserving to be despised : so worthless or obnoxious as to rouse moral indignation (deserving hatred or contempt)
incontinence
the quality or state of lacking self-restraint: not being under control
primordial
existing in or persisting from the beginning (as of a solar system or universe)
pandemonium
wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar
tremulous
characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors
scorn
the feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt
fleers
to laugh or grimace in a coarse derisive (expressing contempt) manner
scourged
whip - one used to inflict pain or punishment
retrogade
having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars
zeal
great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective
reprimand
to reprove sharply or censure formally usually from a position of authority
attrition
sorrow for one’s sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God
swoon
faint from extreme emotion
grotesque
bizarre
putrid
rotten
equinoctial
relating to an equinox or to a state or the time of equal day and night
arduous
involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring
perilous
full of danger or risk
(in scholastic theology) sorrow, but not contrition, for sin.
unshriven
to not be free from guilt
writhes
to twist into coils or folds
pander
to say, do, or provide what someone (such as an audience) wants or demands even though it is not good, proper, reasonable, etc
