vocab 1 ds aplit

Litany

A long, repetitive list or series of grievances

Ostentatious

Attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or unnecessary show

Vehement

Marked by forceful energy, powerful

Lament

To mourn aloud, to wail

Contentious

Likely to cause disagreement or argument

Incongruous

Not harmonious, incompatible

Illicit

Not permitted, illegal

Fervor

Intensity of feeling or expression

Crass

Gross, being beneath one’s dignity

Piety

Following a natural obligation or religious dutifulness

Bellicose

Favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars

Discourse

Verbal interchange of ideas

Vacillate

To waver in mind, will, or feeling, to hesitate

Profound

Having intellectual depth and insight

Superficial

Of, relating to, or located near a surface

Strident

Characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound

Idyllic

Pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity

Sublime

To cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form

Reprieve

To delay the punishment of or allow deliverance

Approbation

commendation, praise

Alliteration

The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

Assonance

Repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants

Consonance

A harmony or agreement among components

Cacophony

Harsh or jarring sound of words or phrases

Euphony

Pleasing or sweet sound