Vocab 7 English 10 Honors

illumination

(n) The provision of light to make something visible or bright or the fact of being lit up

marionette

(n) A puppet that is worked by strings

obligate

(v) To compel somebody to do something as a legal or moral duty

incinerator

(n) A furnace for destroying things by burning them, especially waste

Phoenix

(n) A mythological bird of great beauty fabled to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years

Proclivity

(n) A natural tendency to behave a particular way

Odious

(adj) discuting, highly offensive

Tamp

(v) To pack or push something down

Cacophony

(n) an unpleasant noise

Centrifuge

(n) A device that rotates rapidly and uses centrifugal force to separate substances of different densities