Abigail Quintanilla - 1984 Vocab

Inconceivable

unimaginable; beyond understanding

Palimpsest

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.

Singlet

a sleeveless garment worn under or instead of a shirt; wrestler uniform

Pneumatic

containing or operated by air or gas under pressure

Annihilation

complete destruction

Denounce

publicly declare to be wrong or evil

Flogging

beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

Inscrutable

impossible to understand or interpret

Tableaux

a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant.

Neckerchief

a square of cloth worn around the neck

Inexorably

impossible to stop or prevent

Sanguine

a blood red color or optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.

Ramifications

consequences

Meagreness

lack of quantity or quality

Interminable

endless

Oblong

Having an elongated shape, as a rectangle or an oval.

Frowsy

scruffy and neglected in appearance

Paymaster

the person who distributes paychecks to employees

Contrived

deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously

Counter revolutionary

a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution