Vocab Three Flashcards
(30 cards)
Epoilogue
Concluding section of the story
Pathos
Arouses feelings of pity sympathy and sorrow
Ferret
To uncover and bring to light by searching
Surreptitious
Obtained by stealth
Conflagration
A very intense and uncontrolled fire
Profligate
Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated
Efface
To wipe out
Dissimulation
To hide under a false appearance
Concomitant
Existing or occurring with something else often in a lesser way
Countenance
Bearing or expression mental composure
Dejection
Depression or lowness of spirits
Paroxysm
A sudden violent outburst
Affable
Pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to
Exculpate
To clear from a charge of guilt or faults
Rake
And immoral person
Inexorable
Unyielding, unalterable
Carte Blanche
Unconditional authority
Obsequious
Characterized by serval complacence or deference
Axiom
A self evident truth that requires no proof
Arbiter
A person who decides and determines matters like a judge
Inured
To a custom to hardship, difficulty, pain
Pernicious
Causing insidious harm or ruin
Propensity
Natural inclination or tendency
Louse
Any of numerous small flat bodied wingless biting or sucking insects