Transcendentalists Vocabulary List

admonition

noun: the act of admonishing/rebuking

affinity

noun: natural/spontaneous liking for something/someone or a similarity of characteristics suggesting a relationship

arduous

adjective: involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring

cessation

noun: the process of ending or bringing to an end

deprecate

verb: to express disapproval of

discern

verb: to distinguish with difficulty; to perceive or recognize (something)

encumber

verb: to restrict/burden (someone, something) in a way to restrict action or movement

entrenched

adjective:
(of an attitude, habit, or belief) firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained; well-established/long-established

firmament

noun: the heavens, or sky; a sphere or world viewed as a collection of people

fritter (frittered)

verb: to divide into smaller pieces or to waste time, money, or energy on small matters

heedless

adjective: showing recklessness, not taking care or paying attention (paying no heed to..)

interpose

verb: to come in between one thing and another; to intervene

nonchalance

noun: the state of feeling or appearing calm and relaxed, not phased, unconcerned

paltry

adjective: (of an amount) small/meager or petty/trivial

slavish

adjective: relating to or characteristic of a slave, typically by behaving in a servile or submissive way or showing no attempt at originality, constructive interpretation, or development (unorignal/uninspired)