Fun Home chapters 5+6 vocab

Maudlin

Maudlin

tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental:a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog.

foolishly or mawkishly sentimental because of drunkenness.

Crepuscular

adjective

of, relating to, or resembling twilight; dim; indistinct.

Festoons

noun

a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.

verb (used with object)

to adorn with or as with festoons:to festoon a hall.

Noxious

adjective

harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being:noxious fumes.

morally harmful; corrupting; pernicious:a noxious plan to spread dissension.

Perfunctory

adjective

performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial:perfunctory courtesy.

lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic:In his lectures he reveals himself to be merely a perfunctory speaker.

Bathetic

adjective

displaying or characterized by bathos:the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.

Solipsistic

adjective

of or characterized by solipsism, or the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist:Her treatment philosophy dealt with madness as a complete, self-contained, solipsistic world that sane people are not able to enter.

Autodidact

noun

a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.

Epistemological

adjective

pertaining to epistemology, a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.

Bumpkin

noun Informal.

an awkward, simple, unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel.

Dishabille

noun

the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.

a garment worn in undress.

a loose morning dress.

a disorderly or disorganized state of mind or way of thinking.

Abject

adjective

utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched:abject poverty.

contemptible; despicable; base-spirited:an abject coward.

Mien

noun

air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:a man of noble mien.

Veritable

adjective

being truly or very much so:a veritable triumph.

Obsolete. true, as a statement or tale.

Martyrology

noun, plural mar·tyr·ol·o·gies.

the branch of knowledge dealing with the lives of martyrs.

a history of martyrs.

Assiduous

adjective

constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; meticulous:an assiduous student.

Omnipotence

The state of almighty or infinite in power, as God.

having very great or unlimited authority or power.

Sanctimonious

adjective

making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.:They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.

Lacunae

noun

a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.

Facetious

adjective

not meant to be taken seriously or literally:a facetious remark.

amusing; humorous.

lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous:a facetious person.