Vocab for the Consolations of Philosophy

Surfeit

Excess, too much

Woebegone

Looking sad or miserable

Equanimity

Calmness

Renounce

Give up

Exhort

Strongly encourage or urge

Elucidate

Make clear, explain

Zenith

Time when something is most powerful or successful

Lament

mourn, express sadness and regret

Denounce

publicly declare to be wrong

edifying

morally or intellectually stimulating or improving

transcedent

go beyond limits

servile

too willing to please other people

supine

lazy, weak, failing to act

Cordon

prevent access to

Scrunity

Critical observation or examination

Irrespective

Regardless of, despite

Obtuse

Annoyingly insensitive

Implausible

not reasonable or probable

Hitherto

Until now, up to now

Gait

way of walking

Conviviality

Cheerfulness, sociability

Plethora

a lot, an excess

Malodorous

Stinking, smelling very bad

Inane

Silly, wihtout sense

anomaly

different from what is normal or expected

Austre

Serious, strict

Verdant

Green with grass and/or plants

Testimony

statement, evidence

Titillating

Interesting, exciting

Reprehensible

Disgraceful, shameful

disgruntled

dissatisfied

lewd

crude, offensive

tenor

genneral content or meaning

afflict

cause pain or suffering

sombre

gloomy

intuitive

instincitve; something you know or understand without info

diagnosis

examination, analysis

abate

reduce

malady

disease, sickness

elsuive

difficult to find

sullen

sulky, bad-tempered

qualm

feeling of doubt, unease

whim

sudden desire or change of mind

odious

extremely unpleasant

oblivion

the state of being forgotten, destroyed, or unaware of what is happening

Crux

the most important point of a topic

Congenial

Pleasantly suitable

Prevalence

Commonness, frequency

superfluous

unnecessary

precipitate

Cause to happen

cater

provide what is needed