Vocabulary List #13 Definitions and Meanings

heed

to listen to

hinder

to obstruct; to get in the way of

irascible

irritable

merger

a joining or marriage

nostalgic

yearning for the old days

pretentious

pompous; self important

saccharin

sickly sweet; falsely sweet

stanza

a section of a poem; verse

venerate

to honor

vilify

to speak of as a villain

obfuscate

to confuse; to darken or becloud

surreal

dreamlike; eerie; bizarre

peripatetic

itinerant; traveling from place to place

obviate

to make unnecessary; clear out of the way; remove

proscribe

to condemn; to prohibit as wrong or dangerous

replete

abundantly supplied

byzantine

of or characterized by devious or surreptitious manner of operation; intricately involved or labyrinthine; convoluted

portentous

ominous; threatening

vignette

a short descriptive literary sketch

primordial

existing at the very beginning

hyperbolic

exaggerated