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Dickinson Despair vocab Flashcards

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Abjure/Abnegate (v)

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To renounce or reject

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Ambivalent (adj)

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Having mixed feelings, or contradictory ideas about something or someone

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Amourphous (adj)

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Without a clearly defined shape or form

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Ancillary (adj)

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Proving necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, system, person, ect.

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Anguish (n)

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Great mental pain or suffering

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Illusory (adj)

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Based on illusion; not real

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Liturgical (adj)

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Relating to public worship - ceremonial, ritualistic, solemn, ect

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Lugubrious (adj)

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A thing/person that is sad rather than lively or cheerful

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Morass (n)

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A complicated or confused situation

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Depersonalisation (n)

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where you have the feeling of being outside yourself and observing your actions, feelings, or thoughts from a distance

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Enervating (adj)

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Causing one to feel drained of energy r vitality`

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Evocative (adj)

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Bringing strong images, memories or feelings to mind

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Fatalism (n)

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The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable (Nihilism, existentialism)

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incorrigible (adj)

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Unteachable

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Indefatigable (adj)

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Persisting tirelessly

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Paradoxical (adj)

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Seemingly absurd or self contradictory

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Perturbation (n)

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a state of anxiety and agitation

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Plangent (adj)

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A deep, loud sound which may be sad

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Ponderous (adj)

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Slow and clumsy because of great weight

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Precarious (adj)

Precarity (n)

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when you are not in complete control of events and may fail in what you are doing at any moment

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Propulsive (adj)

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the quality of driving or pushing forward

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Pugnacious (adj)

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Someone who is always ready to quarrel or start a fight

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Quandary (n)

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a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation

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Oblique (adj)

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Not expressed or done in a direct way

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Subservient (adj)

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Prepared to obey others unquestionably

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Subsumed (adj)

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To include or absorb (something) in something else

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