Chronicle of a Death Foretold Flashcards
vocab list (21 cards)
Destitute
poor enough to need help from others (poor)
Alleviation
The act of reducing something unplesent (unplesent)
oblique
slanting or inclined in direction or course or position (dierection position)
ominous
threating or foreshawdoing evil or tragic developments (evil)
panopticon
a circular prision with cells around servaliance station (prision)
penury
a state of extreme provety or destitution (destitution)
peremptory
insisting on immediate attention or obedience (attention, obedience)
pernicicious
exceedingliy harmful ( harmful)
pestilential
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease (disease)
pontificial
relating to the pope (pope)
pretext
a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason ( real reason)
prodigious
great in size, force, extent, degree (degree)
profane
grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred (sacred)
providential
peculiarly fortunate or appropiate (appropriate)
provacative
serving or tending to excite (stimulate)
prudence
discreation in practical affairs (affairs)
revel
take delight in (delight)
scant
less than correct or legal or full amout(legal)
serenade
to sing a song outside the house of a love interest (sing song)
solicitude
a feeling of excessive concern (concern)
squalid
foul and rundown and repulsive (repulsive0