Vocabulary List 4

AH10

Augur

(v) to foretell the future (usually by reading the guts of birds)

 (n) a soothsayer who is skilled in augury (ancient Rome) 

Benison

a blessing or benediction

Blasted

 rotten, blighted, affected by a withering disease or some other mold or parasite.

Carouse

to drink heavily and rowdily.  to party drunkenly and raucously

Dire

characterized by severe, serious, or desperate circumstances. Very bad, very dangerous, will most likely result in serious consequences.

Equivocat

to be deliberately unclear.  To speak vaguely or ambiguously, especially in order to mislead.  To tell the technical truth in order to mislead, deceive, or lie. 

Gall

noun. 1. Impudent boldness, audacity

2. bitter feeling, resentment

3. bile, stomach acid

- verb. 4. To annoy or cause anger or bitterness. 

Harbinger

somebody or something that foreshadows or anticipates future event. Herald, portent, omen 

Incarnadine

blood-red

Pernicious

highly destructive; deadly, poisonous

Ravish

 to capture and carry off by force, to overwhelm, to rape, to violate 

more modern definition = To overwhelm somebody with pleasurable feelings or emotions

Staunch

 (adj) resolute, unflinching, loyal 

(v) to stop, to halt, to curb, curtail, stem, or hold back the flow of something.

Surmise

To guess or deduce based on intuition or limited evidence 

Trammel

(n). a weighted net, something that limits a person’s freedoms 

(v) to restrain or ensnare somebody or something. To hold back

Trifle

noun 1. Something trivial or inconsequential

2. a small quantity

verb to treat (something or someone) without seriousness or respect, to be cavalier