Vocab

=Quizlet Vocab (Sarah Drumm) = media type="custom" key="12203368" = = =Vocabulary (Allison Bornstein) = **__From the Letters__** **Satiate (7)**
 * 1) To satisfy (an appetite or desire) fully.
 * 2) To satisfy to excess.

**Effusion(s) (8)**
 * 1) The act or an instance of pouring forth; Liquid or other matter poured forth.
 * 2) An unrestrained outpouring of feeling, as in speech or writing: “the devout effusions of sacred eloquence” (Edmund Burke
 * 3) //Pathology//:
 * The seeping of serous, purulent, or bloody fluid into a body cavity or tissue
 * The effused fluid

**Entreat/Entreated -** also **in·treat** (n-)//v.// **en·treat·ed,** **en·treat·ing,** **en·treats** (8) //v.// //tr.// & //intr.//


 * 1) To make an earnest request of.
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">To ask for earnestly; petition for.
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//__Archaic.__// To deal with; treat.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Capacious (10) ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Inexorable // adj. // (11) ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless: //an inexorable opponent; a feeling of inexorable doom.//


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Solicitude (13) **
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The state of being solicitous; care or concern, as for the well-being of another.
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A cause of anxiety or concern. Often used in the plural.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Emaciated //adj.// (14 and others)** <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Countenance **// n. // (14 and others)


 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Appearance, especially the expression of the face: //The question left him with a puzzled countenance.//
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The face or facial features.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A look or expression indicative of encouragement or of moral support.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Support or approval.
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//__Obsolete.__// Bearing; demeanor.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Cull/Culled **// v. // **culled,** **cull·ing,** **culls** (16)


 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">To pick out from others; select.
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">To gather; collect.
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example).

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__From Chapter I__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Indefatigable **// adj. // (18 and others)

<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Censure **// n. // (22) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">// tr.v. // **cen·sured,** **cen·sur·ing,** **cen·sures**
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif;">An expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticisim
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif;">An official rebuke, as by a legislature of one of its members
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">To criticize severely; blame..
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">To express official disapproval of: “whether the Senate will censure one of its members for conflict of interest” (Washington Post). **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__From Chapter II__**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Chimera **//n// (27) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1: (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2: a grotesque product of the imagination

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__From Chapt III__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Apparition **// n. // (30 and others)


 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A ghostly figure; a specter.
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A sudden or unusual sight: “ [The designer's] //indoor-outdoor reversals and juxtapositions call forth a Magritte apparition beneath a Miami moon”// (Herbert Muschamp).
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The act of appearing; appearance.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__From Chap. V__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Vivacity** (vih vahs ih tee) //n//. liveliness, spiritedness <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: vibrance, zest (41)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Mien** (meen) //n//. characteristics expressive of attitude or personality. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: manner, demeanor, expression, style (41)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Approbation** (aa pruh bay shun) //n//. praise: official approval <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: acclaim, accolade, encomium, applause (42)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Salubrious** (suh loo bree uhs) //adj.// healthful <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: curative, medicinal, therapeutic (43)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Chapter VI__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Prognosticate** –ing –ed (prahg nahs tih kayt) //v.// to indicate in advance; to forecast <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: predict, foreshadow, portend (47)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Chapter VII__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Exculpate** –ing – ed (ehk skuhl payt) //v.// to clear of blame or fault, vindicate <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: exhonorate, aquit (52)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Execrate** – ing –ed (ehk sih krayt) //v.// to curse, to declare to be evil <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: hate, abhor, loathe (52)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Perdition** (puhr dih shuhn) //n//. eternal damnation; utter ruin <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: suffering, anguish, wretchedness, loss, hell (56)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Vol II, Chap. I__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Augment** --ing –ed (awg mehnt//) v.// to expand, extend. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: enhance, compound, increase, enlarge (59)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Efface** --ing – ed (eh fays) //v.// to erase or make indistinct. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: obliterate, expunge (60)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Chapter II__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Precipitous** (pree sih puh tus) adj. extremely steep <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: reckless, abrupt (64)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Chapter III__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Implore** -- ing –ed (im plohr) //v.// to call upon in supplication, beg. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: plead, entreat, beg (66)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Chap. IV__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Purloin** – ing –ed (puhr loyn) //v.// to steal <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: filch, pilfer, embezzle, misappropriate (71)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Arbiter** – (ahr bih tihr) //n.// one who decides or holds the power <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Synonyms: judge, mediator (77)