Words From Heart Of Darkness Flashcards
Bight
A curve or recess in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
A loop of rope, as distinct from the ropes ends.
Recrudescence
Break out again; recur
Alacrity
Brisk and cheerful readiness
Rapacious (rapacity)
Aggressively greedy or grasping.
Folly
Lack of good senses; foolishness.
A foolish act, idea or practice.
A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, esp. a tower or mock-gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.
Obliquely
Not in a direct way; indirectly.
In an oblique direction; slant wise.
Effaced
Erase (a mark) from a surface.
Make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous.
Moribund
(Of a person) at the point of death.
(Of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality of vigor.
Propitiate
Win or regain the favor of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them
Indissoluble
Unable to be destroyed; lasting.
Volubility
The quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly
; talkativeness.
Trenchant
Vigorous or incisive in experience or style.
Supercilious
Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others
Prevaricate
Speak or act in an evasive way.
Indefatigable
(Of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly.
Servile
Having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.
Of characteristic of a slave or slaves.
Epoch
A period of time in history or a persons life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics.
The beginning of a distinctive period in history of someone or something.
(Geology) a division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series in chronostratigraphy.
(Astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date relative to which planetary or stellar measurements are expressed.
Jocose
Playful or humorous
Fecund
Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile.
(Of a woman or women) capable of becoming pregnant and giving birth.
Locution
A word or phrase, esp. with regard to style or idiom.
A persons style of speech.
