Flashcards in At the Pulpit Deck (20)
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Formidable
Causing fear, apprehension or dread
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Enigma
- a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence
- a person of puzzling or contradictory character
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Surmise
Conjecture
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Ambivalence
Uncertainty, esp caused by the inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to do 2 opposing things
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Sordid
Morally ignoble or vile
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Lament
To feel or express sorrow and regret
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Query
A question or inquiry
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Diminutive
Small; little
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Vacuous
- empty
- lacking in ideas or intelligence
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Reverie
A state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing
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Conciliatory
- to overcome distrust or hostility
- to win over
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Emphatic
- strongly expressive
- forceful, insistent
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Elegy
A mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem (ex. Funeral song)
- dirge
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Cognizant
To be aware
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Inexplicable
Incapable of being explained
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Deify
- to make a god
- to personify as a deity
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Aggregate
Collection, combined, total
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Celestial
- pertaining to the sky or visible heaven
- divine, heavenly
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Blasphemy
irreverent behavior toward anything held sacred, priceless, etc.
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