Second Quarter Vocabulary

Macabre

gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.

Macabre etymology

French - Danse Macabe - “dance of death”

Cryptic

Mysterious in meaning; puzzling

Cryptic etymology

Greek - Kryptikos “hidden”

Grotesque

comically or repulsively ugly or distorted

Grotesque part of speech

adjective

Reliance

confident or trustful dependence

Reliance part of speech

noun

Revenge

to take vengeance for; inflict punishment for

RE- prefix meaning

back or again

Madness

behavior or thinking that is very foolish or dangerous

-NESS suffix meaning

act of, condition of

Pernicious

causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful

Pernicious etymology

Latin perniciosus “ruinous”

Solstice

either of two times a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator

Solstice Etymology

Latin “point at which the sun seems to stand still”