Vocabulary & Spelling 2.2

brandish

t.v. - To shake or wave something menacingly

Chimera

n. - A fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a serpent’’s tail

crux

n. - An essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome

detriment

n. - A cause of injury or damage

emancipate

t.v. - To free from restraint, control, or power, especially to free from bondage

emaciated

adj. - Extremely thin due to illness or lack of food

inimical

adj. - Adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence

lummox

n. - A clumsy person

macabre

adj. - Tending to producing horror in a beholder

oxymoron

n. - A combination of contradictory and incongruous words

pallid

adj. - Deficient in color or pale

pariah

n. - Someone despised or rejected

petulant

adj. - Characterized by temporary or ill-tempered humor

pinafore

n. - A sleeveless usually low-necked garment fastened in the back and worn as an apron or dress

rectitude

n. - Moral integrity or righteousness

roseate

adj. - Resembling a rose in color

rostrum

n. - A raised platform on a stage

semaphore

n. - A system of visual signaling by two flags held one in each hand

turpitude

n. - Inherent baseness or depravity

xenophobia

n. - Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything strange or foreign