Sunday, April 15, 2012

Word List ~ Chapters 1-2

Here is the whole list of words for Chapters I and II. At the bottom of the list is the link to the Google Form that must be completed by Monday night 11:59 pm.

  1. indefatigable - tireless 
  2. intimate - very familiar, close 
  3. rankling - soreness, great pain 
  4. plaited - weave, braid 
  5. pittance - very small amount; a trifling 
  6. disconsolate - hopelessly sad 
  7. interment - burial 
  8. recompensing - reward; pay back, or payment 
  9. penury - very great poverty
  10. chamois - small, 
  11. goat–like antelope 
  12. ardor - great intensity; passion; strong enthusiasm 
  13. sublime - exalted; inspiring awe 
  14. rapture - elation; exhilaration 
  15. infidels - without religion or belief; an atheist 
  16. indulgence - liberal or lenient treatment 
  17. caprice - impulsive change of mind, whim 
  18. filial - affectionate; obedient; pertaining to a son or daughter 
  19. metaphysical - mystical, abstract, spiritual 
  20. predilection - preference, partiality 
  21. inclemency - severity of weather, stormy 
  22. chimerical - illusionary, fanciful, dreamlike 
  23. avidity - eagerness; greediness 
  24. imbued - filled with ideas, feelings, etc. 
  25. tyros - beginners, amateurs
  26. tertiary - third place or rank 
  27. impediments - hindrance; block 
  28. repined - express discontent 
  29. averred - to declare in a positive, formal way
  30. progeny - children, descendants, offspring 
  31. immutable - not susceptible to change
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