Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Fall Vocabulary List #8

Ruinous:bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous

Quavered:to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble

Certitude:freedom from doubt, especially in matters of faith or opinion; certainty

Notch:an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.

Perspired: to sweat

Manifested:readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain:

Latrine:a toilet or something used as a toilet, as a trench in the earth in a camp, or bivouac area.

Uttered:to give audible expression to; speak or pronounce

Parried:to turn aside; evade or dodge

 Oracle:the agency or medium giving such responses

Conscious:aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc

Feigning:to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of; Fake

Leisurely:acting, proceeding, or done without haste; unhurried; deliberate

Conjure:to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell

Anesthetized:to render physically insensible, as by an anesthetic

Tyranny:the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler

Folly:a foolish action, practice, idea, etc.; absurdity

Dreary:causing sadness or gloom

Grotesque:odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.

Reckoning:an accounting, as for things received or done.

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