LOTF vocab

Furtive

Secretive attempt to avoid notice

Vicissitude

A sudden change in luck or fortune usually for the worse

Strident

Harsh, startling, and loud

Impalpable

Unable to be felt physically

Leviathan

An enormous sea creature

Tremulous

Nervous our uncertain

Corpulent

Large and bulky; fat

Incantation

Reciting words repeatedly; a magic spell

Derision

Scorn; disdain; mockery

Ludicrous

Amusingly absurd, deserving of mockery

Glower

To stare in an angry, aggressive manner

Inimical

Unfriendly, hostile

Allegory

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to have a hidden meaning typically moral or political

Anarchy

A state of disorder due to absence or no recognition of authority or other controlling systems

Mirage

An optical illusion caused by atmosphere conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in the desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air

Motif

A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition

Beelzebub

A name for the devil