English 10 HN - LOTF Vocab II

Coverts

a thicket; a masking or concealing device

Obtuseness

difficult to comprehend: not clear or precise in thought or expression; slow to understand

Luxuriance

yielding abundantly; abundant growth/lush

Impervious

not capable of being affected or disturbed; can't get through

Rebuke

to criticize sharply

Sanctity

the quality or state of being holy or sacred

Cynicism

cynical attitude or quality

Derision

a state of being laughed at or ridiculed; the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt

Assimilating

to take into the mind and thoroughly understand

Purged

to clear of guilt; to free from moral or ceremonial defilement

Myopia

a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects

Propitiatingly

to appease or conciliate

Pinnacles

an upright architectural member generally ending in small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress

Truculently

in a aggressively self-assertive manner; scathingly marsh; feeling or displaying ferocity

Eclipsed

the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another; the passing into the shadow of a celestial body

Inimical

being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence; having the disposition of an enemy; reflecting or indicating hostility

Elephantine

having enormous size or strength

Crepitation

to make a crackling sound; a crackling sound

Excruciatingly

very intense; causing great pain or anguish