English - The Time Machine Chap. 5 Vocab.

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gibbous

greater than a semicircle

musing

reflection or thought

flitted

move swiftly

complacency

a feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself

folly

foolishness

crest

the top of a mountain or hill

leprosy

suffering from a contagious disease

frenzy

a state of wild behavior

raving

wild talk

gashed

cut deeply

anguish

severe suffering

blundering

clumsy

groping

searching blindly

wretchedness

unfortunate state

behooves

a duty for someone

cunning

skill in achieving goals through deceit

stolid

showing little emotion

curbed

restrain

perplexity

inability to deal with something complicated

counsel

advice

rapped

strike

repugnance

intense disgust

furtively

secretly

occidental

relating to countries of the west

vigil

period of keeping awake

monomania

obsessive enthusiasm for one thing

tether

tie

exuberant

lively energy

undulating

smoothly rising and falling form

apparatus

equipment necessary for a purpose

conveyance

process of transferring something

apprehend

understand

sepulture

burial

infirm

not physically or mentally strong

decadent

moral or cultural decline

vestige

trace of something that no longer exists or is disappearing

plaintively

expressing sorrow

expostulations

exclamation of protest