Vocabulary Terms

Allocation

The act of setting apart for a purpose or specific pain, designate

Ascetic

A person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons

Beguile

To influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude; to take away from by cheating or deceiving.

Crass

without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid

Defray

To bear or pay all or part of costs/expenses/etc.

Dint

force; power

Enjoin

to prescribe with authority or emphasis

Envoy

A diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative

Interloper

To intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license; to thrust oneself into the affairs of others

Vicarious

performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another. Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute. Feel of enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others.

Admonish

to caution, advise, or counsel against something; to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner

Akimbo

with hand on hip and elbow bent outward

Lassitude

Weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; langour; a condition of indolent indifference

Licentious

Sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd; unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral

Muse

To think or meditate in silence, as on some subject; any of a number of sister goddesses

Pecuniary

Of or involving money; involving a money penalty or fine

Plight

To pledge or promise

Presumptuous

Too bold or forward; showing Overconfidence; arrogance

Subversive

Tending or seeking to overthrow or destroy

Vacuous

Having or showing lack of intelligence, interest, or thought; empty of matter

Avocation

Something one does in addition to regular work and usually for pleasure; hobby

Capricious

Tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason

Disparity

Inequality or difference as in rank, amount, or quality; unlikeness

Efficacy

Power to produce effects of intended results

Epistle

A letter especially a long formal instructive letter; written communication

Hospice

A place of shelter for travelers, especially such a shelter maintained by monks

Impetus

The force with which a body moves against resistance; anything that stimulates activity

Moribund

dying; coming to an end; having little or no vital force left

Reticent

Habitually silent or uncommunicative; disinclined to speak rapidly

Vacillate

To sway to and fro; fluctuate or oscillate