english 10 honors vocab 7

illumination

(n) - The provision of light to make something visible or bright or the fact of being 

lit up

marionette

(n) - a puppet that is worked by strings

obligate

(v) - To compel somebody to do something as a legal or moral duty

incinerator

(n) - A furnace for destroying things by burning them, especially waste 

Phoenix

(n) - a mythological bird of great beauty fabled to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to 

rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years

proclivity

(n) - A natural tendency to behave in a particular way

odious

(adj) – disgusting, highly offensive 

tamp

(v) - To pack or push something down

cacophony

(n) - An unpleasant noise

centrifuge

(n) - A device that rotates rapidly and uses centrifugal force to separate substances of

different densities.