heart of darkness vocab

impalpable

unable to be felt by touch (adj)

sepulchre

a small room used for burying a body; tomb (n)

languid

slow and relaxed; weak, fatigued (adj)

lugubrious

looking or sounding sad and dismal; mournful, gloomy, unhappy (adj)

charnel

relating to death (adj) or a place where bones are held (n)

apoplectic

overcome with anger, extremely indignant (adj)

inscrutable 

impossible to understand or interpret; cryptic, puzzling, unintelligable

pernicious

having a harmful effect upon something; injurious, destructive (adj)

rapacious

aggressively greedy or grasping; covetous, insatiable (adj)

desultory

lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm; random or unorganized; haphazard, unsystematic (adj)

supercilious

behaving as though one thinks they are superior to others; haughty, arrogant, conceited (adj)

sententious

given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner; self-righteous (adj)

abject

(of something bad) to the maximum degree (adj)

pretext

an excuse that is not the real reason (n)

alacrity

enthusiasm, excitement (adj)

edifice

a building (n)

querulous

complaining in a whining manner; petulant (adj)

inexorable

impossible to avoid; inevitable, unstoppable (adj)

evanescence

lasting for a short period of time; transience, impermanence (adj)

lascivious

revealing sexual desire; lecherous, suggestive (adj)