THE IRRESPONSIBLE.
THIS I BELIEVE
ADULATION - n - to flatter or admire excessively
- Synonymous to adoration, praise, worship, exaltation, idolization, glorification, admiration, reverence
ALOOFNESS - adj. - removed, distant, physically or emotionally
AUTOCRATIC - adj. - government by one person having unlimited power
- Synonymous to tyrannical, oppressive, repressive, dictatorial
BOMBAST - n - pretentious wordy speech or writing
- Synonymous to pomposity, pretentiousness, posturing, affectation, swagger, bravado, bluster
BUSTLE - n - briskly energetic; work in a brisk, busy manner
CONTEMPTIBLE - adj. - deserving contempt; despicable
- Synonymous to disgraceful, shameful, disreputable, loathsome
DEGENERACY - n - the state of being degenerate; the process of becoming degenerate; perversion
- Synonymous to immorality, corruption, wickedness, evil, decadence, dissoluteness, wantonness, vice
DEGENERATE - n -fallen or deteriorated from a former, higher or normal condition
DESPICABLE - adj. - deserving to be despised
MILITIA - n - a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency
- Synonymous to armed force, private army, band of soldiers, mercenaries
ODIOUS - adj. - causing or deserving hatred or repugnance
- Synonymous to hateful, horrible, loathsome, revolting, detestable, repellent, repulsive, obnoxious
RAPT - adj. - Carried away with emotion; absorbed, engrossed
- Synonymous to captivated, gripped, enthralled, spellbound, wrapped up, immersed, fascinated
RENDERED - adj. - to give in return
SUBLIME - adj. - exalted, noble; having awe-inspiring beauty or grandeur
- Synonymous to glorious, splendid, superb, resplendent and gorgeous
HOW DO I LOVE THEE?
DEPTH - n - something that is deep
BREADTH - n - width; spaciousness
WE ALONE
DEVALUE - v - to lessen or, sometimes, annul the value or importance of something
REVOLUTION - n - in context with the selection, the word could mean ‘an uprising, or a reversal (radical change, reconstruction, revolution in ideas, political upheaval)’
SCARCE - adj. - identified as something that is ‘not common, hard to get, rarely seen’
ALONE - adj. - may refer to one’s lack of companionship (lone, isolated, unaccompanied, secluded, solo), one’s being unique, or exclusive of others (may be applied with the word “only”)
THE AMBITIOUS GUEST
DESPONDENCY - n - hopelessness
- Synonyms: Sadness, Misery
ARDOR - n - passion
- Synonyms: Enthusiasm, Zeal
NONSENSICAL - n - words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
- Synonyms: Irrational, Senseless
NOTION - n - an individual's conception or impression of something known, experienced, or imagined
- Synonyms: Belief, Perception
PETRIFIED - v - to become stone or of stony hardness or rigidity
MIRTH - n - gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter
- Synonyms: Jollity, Entertainment
PEDESTAL - n - foundation
- Synonyms: Base, Stand
LONESOME - adj. - sad or dejected as a result of lack of companionship or separation from others
- Synonym: Alone
DREARY - adj. - Depressing in character or appearance
- Synonyms: Cheerless, Dull, Gloomy
PRIMITIVE - n - a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
- A person who belongs to early stage of civilization
- Synonyms: Crude, Early, Not civilized
BENUMBED - adj. - having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure
- Synonyms: Insensible, Numb, dulled
WAYFARER - n - walks from place to place
- Synonym: Journeyer
SEPULCHER - n - a chamber that is used as a grave
- Synonyms: Burial chamber, Sepulture
THROUGH THE TUNNEL
BESEECH - v - to beg for urgently or anxiously
CONVULSIVE - adj. - having the nature of a convulsion; having, producing, or marked by convulsions
DEFIANTLY - adv. - full of showing
FROND - n - a large leaf usually with many divisions
INCREDULOUS - adj. - unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
INNUMERABLE - countless
JUT - v - to extend out, up, or forward
LIMPLY - adv. - To walk lamely, especially with irregularity, as if favoring one leg.
MYRIAD - n - a great number
PESTER - v - annoy
PROMONTORY - n - a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower lying land or a body of water (when it may be called a peninsula or headland)
THROBBING - n - to beat, pulsate, vibrate, etc.; to beat strongly or fast; palpitate, as the heart under exertion; to feel or express emotion; quiver with excitement
TRICKLE - v - To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream; to move or proceed slowly or bit by bit: The audience trickled in.
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE
THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
DIVERGED - v - to separate and go in a different direction or different directions
TRODDEN - v - compressed, flattened, crushed, trampled
UNDERGROWTH - n - bushes, small trees, or other vegetation growing beneath the trees in a forest
THE
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APPRAISE-assess the value or quality of
AVARICE - immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity.
CANOE - n - a narrow, keedless boat with pointed ends, propelled by a paddle or paddles.
COVEY - n - a group, set, or company.
FATIGUE - n - extreme tiredness, typically resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness
HAMMOCK - n - a bed made of canvas or of rope mesh and suspended by cords at the ends, used as garden furniture or on board a ship.
INDIGENT - adj. - lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
MISSHAPEN - - not having a natural shape
RUT - n - a long deep track made by the repeated passage of the wheels of vehicles.
SCURRYING - - move hurriedly with short quick steps
STRENUOUS - - requiring or using great exertion
SUBSEQUENT - adj. - coming after some time
SUPPLIANT - adv. - Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching.
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RUBBLE - n - Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size and shape.
SPUTTER - v - To spit out or spray particles of saliva or food from the mouth in noisy bursts.
FEVERISH - adj. - having the symptoms of fever
adhered – obey, support
bulwark – defensive wall, protection
canoes – light narrow pointed boat
clump – cluster of things
crease – fold put in fabric
estuary – section of a river meeting the sea
flitted – move from place to place
flurry – burst of activity
gleam – shine brightly
hazy – visually obscured, imprecise
hummock – small hill or mound
incandescence – emission of light
lateen - having triangular sail
mirage – optical illusion
moaned – make low sound expressing pain
obscured – hard to understand
perceptible - detectable
poultice – moist substance applied to injury
receding – get farther away
rubble – rough stones as filler or bulk
speculatively – forming conclusions not based on fact
stern – strict, forbidding
strewn – scatter something, spread thing over area
tactful – having or showing concern about upsetting or offending people
undulating – move sinuously like waves
waded – walk in water
writhed – twist or squirm
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AMMONIA - n - a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH3, used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.
BENEDICTION - n -an utterance of good wishes
CARBINE - n - a light, gas-operated semiautomatic rifle
CONSECRATE - v - to set apart as sacred
COZEN - v - to deceive or trick
CROON - v - to hum, sing or murmur in a low tone
DISPARAGEMENT - n - something that lowers another or a person of worth or importance
DUSK - n - time just before dark
EMBER - n - piece of wood or coal that is still glowing in the fire
ESTUARY - n - broad mouth of a river
FRANTIC - adj. - very much excited
FURTIVE - adv. - done by stealth; secretive
GROPE - v - to feel about with the hands
HAMMOCK - n - a swinging couch or bed usually made of netting or canvas and slung by cords from supports at each end
HARPOON - n - a barbed spear or javelin used especially in hunting large fish or whales
INCANDESCENCE - n - the condition of a body where one glows and gives of light
POULTICE- a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
PULQUE- a Mexican alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of various agaves
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benign – adj. - having a kind and gentle disposition or appearance
countenanced - n - calm expression
crevices – n - a narrow crack or opening
estuary - n - a water passage where the tide meets a river current
hibiscus – n - flowers: large, brightly colored, with prominent stamen tubes
insubstantial - adj. - not existing in reality
limbs – n - the outer edge of the apparent disk of the celestial body
slitting – n - a long narrow cut or opening
swaddled - v - to wrap a baby tightly in a soft material
timber - n -and covered with trees
vigor – n - intensity or forcefulness in the way something is done
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GLIDED - to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance, as a flying bird, a boat, or a skater.
SURGED - a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.
DULLED - Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive.
FRANTIC - desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
HERRING - an important food fish, Clupea harengus harengus, found in enormous shoals in the
SEARING - To char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument. See Synonyms at burn1.
-A condition, such as a scar, produced by searing.
EDIFICE - any large, complex system or organization.
LAMENT - to mourn for or over.
RUMMAGED - to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), esp. by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
GOURD - a dried and excavated gourd shell used as a bottle, dipper, flask, etc.
FONDLED - to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress: to fondle a precious object; to fondle a child.
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Pelted (p.68) – [verb] 1. To throw
2. To hurry
3. To rain heavily
Screeched (p.69) - [noun] a shrill or high pitched sound or cry
Rud (p.70) – [noun] 1. Redness/blush
2. Ruddle; Red ocher
Cricked (p.70) – [noun] a painful muscle spasm or cramp in the neck or back
Resinous (p.70) – [adj.] having the characteristics of pitch or tar
Sinister (p.71) – [adj.] suggesting, or warning of evil
Interwoven(p.71) – [adj.] linked/locked closely together as by dovetailing
Scuttled (p.73) – [verb] to run with short quick step
[Noun] a hurried pace or run
Tufts (p.76) – [verb] 1. To drag while walking
2. To scrape by doing so
[noun] 1. A mark caused by scuffing
2. The act or sound of scuffing
Crevices (p.78) – [noun] A narrow crack or gap in rock
Foliage (p.78) – [noun] Leaves
Clucked (p.80) – [noun] The call of a hen
[verb] to make such a sound.
SONNET 29 - Qylla Z, isa lang? really? srsly?
SULLEN - adj. - bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
ACCOSTED - v - approached boldly
APERTURE - n – hole
CONNOISSEURSHIP - n - having an expert judge in matters of taste
IMMOLATION - n - the act of killing especially by burning
IMPUNITY - n - exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action
OBSTINATE - adj. – stubborn
RAMPART - n – wall
REDRESS - v - set right
RHEUM - n - a watery fluid that collects in or drips from the nose or eyes
WONT - n - habit
A ROSE FOR EMILY
ALDERMEN - n - a member of a city legislative body
ARCHAIC – relating to or characteristics of an earlier or primitive time
BEMUSED – to occupy the attention of
BIDING – v - to continue in a state or condition
coquettish – a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain attention and admiration from men
CUPOLAS – a round vault usually resting on a circular base and forming a roof or a ceiling
deprecation – to express disapproval
DEPUTATION - n -group of people appointed to represent others
dispensation – a formal authorization
DIVULGE- Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
edict – a proclamation having the force of law
ENCROACHED - v - enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another
GROSS – immediately obvious; reasonably noticeable
HUMANIZED - v - to make more human
NICHE – n - a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted b: a habitat supplying the factors necessary for the existence of an organism or species c: the ecological role of an organism in a community especially in regard to food consumption
OBLITERATED – to remove utterly from recognition/memory; to remove from existence
OUTBUILDINGS - a building separate from but accessory to main house
PALLID - adj. -lacking sparkle or liveliness
PERPETUITY - n - a: the condition of an estate limited so that it will not take effect or vest within the period fixed by law; b: an estate so limited
REIN - n - One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
-Control and direct with or as if by reins; as of a horse
RIGGERS - n - Someone who rigs
SLUGGISHLY – marked slow in movement, flow or growth
SLUNK – to go or move in stealthily or furtively
SPIRES – a tapering roof or analogous pyramidal construction surmounting a tower
TEEMING – to be filled or overflowing; to be present in large quantity
TEMERITY – unreasonable or foolhardily contempt on danger or opposition
VANQUISHED – to gain mastery over
VINDICATED - v - Freed from any question of guilt
THE TIGER WHO WOULD BE KING
MENDING WALL
ABREAST - adv. - side by side facing in the same direction
ELVES - n - (in folklore) one of a class of preternatural beings, esp. from mountainous regions, with magical powers, given to capricious and often mischievous interference in human affairs, and usually imagined to be a diminutive being in human form; sprite; fairy.
NOTION - n - a conception or idea or general understanding; a vague or imperfect conception or idea of something.
ORCHARD - n - stretch of land with cultivated fruit trees; the trees collectively
SAVAGE - adj. - primitive, uncultivated
YELPING - v - making a sharp, high pitched cry, or a series of such cries
A SERVICE OF LOVE
ardent- a. passionate; eager
atelier- n. studio
elated- v. make proud
enamored- v. fill with love
feat- n. act or deed
furnace- n. structure in which heat is produced
gleefully- a. joyful
hastily- a. done in a hurry
obelisk- slender, tapering, four-sided pillar; pl. piece of real estate
premise- n. a basic assumption
prominent- a. 1 projecting 2 conspicuous; very noticeable 3 famous
promisingly- a. showing signs of future success
vaguely- adv. Indefinite; unclear
wearily- tired; bored
THE MERCHANT OF
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