Vocabulary Lesson 13 (nirvana-animosity)

nirvana(n)

a condition of great peace or happiness

salutary(adj)

healthful; wholesome

despicable(adj)

contemptible; hateful

harlequin(n)

a clown

empathy(n)

an understanding of another's feelings

brevity(n)

briefness; short duration

savant(n)

a person of extensive learning; an eminent scholar

obsequious(adj)

excessively submissive or overly attentive

redundant(adj)

repetitious; using more worlds than needed

offal(n)

garbage; waste parts

hoi polloi(n)

the common people; the masses

sentient(adj)

conscious; capable of feeling of perceiving

impinge(v)

to encroach; to trespass

cataract(n)

a large waterfall

animosity(n)

hatred