Death of a Salesman Vocab

Incipient

Adjective: beginning to come into being or to become apparent

Adverb: Incipiently

Noun: Incipiency

Dormer

Noun: a window that projects vertically from a sloping roof.

Jovial

adjective: good humored cheerful; jolly

noun: jovality

Merccurial

Adjective: rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood

Adverb: Mercurially

Noun: Mercurialness

Turbulent

Adjective: causing unrest, violence, or disturbance

Adverb: Turbulently

Noun: Turbulence

Crestfallen

adjective: sad and disappointed

Adverb: crestfallenly

noun: crestfallenness

Idealist

Noun: one guided by ideals

Adj: Idealistic

Noun: Idealism

Enthralled

Verb: to hold spellbound: charm

noun: enthrallment

verb: enthrall

Pompous

(adj.) overly self-important in speech and manner;

Adverb: pompously

noun: pompousness

Insinuate

verb; to suggest or hint slyly

noun: insinuation

adjective: insinuative

Anemic

adjective: lacking energy , vigor and spirit

adverb: anemically

Primp

verb: to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful manner

incarnate

adjective: invested with bodily and especially human nature and form

noun: incarnation

Laconic

Adjective: Using or involving the use of a minimum of words: concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious

Laconically (adverb)

Dispel

verb: To drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering

ignormaus

noun: An utterly ignorant person

gallant

adjective/noun/verb: Showing courage: very brave

adverb: gallantly

Audacity

Noun: a confident and daring quality that is often seen as shocking or rude

Adjective: audacious

Imbue

verb: to cause (someone or something) to be deeply affected by a feeling or to have a certain quality → influence

Remiss

Adjective: Negligent in the performance of work or duty: careless

Yearn

Verb: To long persistently, wistfully, or sadly

Yearner (noun)

Yearningly (adverb)

Candid

Adjective: Expressing opinions or feelings in a honest and sincere way

Candidly (adverb)

Candidness (noun)

Salvation

Noun: Something that saves someone or something from danger or difficult situation (liberation)

Saccharine

Adjective: Overly or Sickishly sweet

Trepidation

Noun: A nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation/ A feeling of fear that causes you to hesitate

Adjective: Trepidatious 

Indignant

adjective: Feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy: filled with or marked by indignation

adverb: Indignantly

noun: indignation

Approbation

Noun: Praise or approval

Stolid

Adjective: Showing little or no emotion: not easily excited or upset

Stolidity (noun)

Stolidly (adverb)

Surly

Adjective: Menacing or threatening in appearance (rude and unfriendly)

Arrogant, imperious

Surlily (adverb)

Surliness (noun)

Surly (adverb)

Philanderer

Noun: A man who has sexual relations with many women

Incredulous

adjective- unwilling or unable to believe/accept what is offered as true

adverb: Incredulously

noun: incredulity

Carte Blanche

Noun: permission (by someone in an authoritative position) to do something in any way you choose to do it

Feasible

adjective: Capable of being done or carried out/possible doable

noun: feasibility

Mystify

Verb: To perplex the mind of: bewilder, confuse

Mystifier (noun)

Mystifyingly (adverb)

Spite

Noun: Petty ill or hatred with disposition to irritate, annoy, thwart

Spite (transitive. verb): to annoy, offend

Befuddled

adjective: Utterly confused or puzzled: deeply perplexed

Sensuous

adjective: Affecting the senses in a pleasing or sexual way

adverb: Sensuously

noun: Sensuousness

implacable

adjective: Not placable: not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated

Implacability (noun)

Implacably (adverb)

immobile

adjective: Unable to move: not moving

Immobility (noun)

Seethe

verb/noun: To suffer violent internal excitement

To be in a state of rapid agitated movement

Transitive verb: to soak or saturate in a liquid

Seethe (noun): A state of seething

contemptuous

adjective: Manifesting, feeling, or expressing deep hatred or disapproval: feeling or showing contempt

Contemptuously (adverb)

Contemptuousness (noun)

idyllic

adjective: A pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity

Idyllically (adverb)

Elegiac

adjective/noun: Of, relating to, or comprising elegy or an elegy

→ especially expressing sorrow often for something now past

Elegiacally (adverb)

Avid

Adjective: characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit: very eager and enthusiastic

Avidly (adverb)

Avidness (noun)