Copy of Copy of English 3AP/3H Pilot vocabulary lesson: Beloved (lesson one): words and definitions

1. Annals: (N.) - a record of events year by year

2. Superannuated: (adj.) - obsolete through age or new technological developments

super= over or above

3. Biennial: (adj.) - happening every two years

Bi = two

4. Spite: (n.) -a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone; malice; bitter animosity

5. Strewn (v.) - untidily scattered or dispersed

6. Perfunctory: (Adj.) - carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection; cursory or hurried

7. Churn (n): unpleasantly disturbing feeling; agitation or turning; a machine or container in which butter is made by agitating milk or cream.

8. Luminous: (adj.) - full of light; bright or shining

9. Revulsion (n.) - a sense of disgust and loathing

10. Rebuke (v.) - express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or actions; to criticize or reprimand

11. Deprivation: (n.) - the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society; poverty

12. Tribulation: (n.) -a cause of great trouble or suffering

13. Rendezvous: (n.) - a meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people.

14**. Idle: (adj. Or v.)** - as an adjective: avoiding work, lazy; without purpose or effect; pointless, frivolous

As a verb: do nothing, be inactive

15. Yearning: (n.) - a feeling of intense longing

16. Chastise: (v.) - to reprimand severely; to scold or lambaste

17. Sullen: (adj.) - bad tempered and sulky; gloomy, surly

18**. Reluctant: (Adj.)** - unwilling and hesitant; disinclined

19. Zealot: (n.) - a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their relitgious, political, or other ideals

20. Reverie: (n.) -a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream

21. Vex: (V.) -make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters; to irritate

22. Resigned: (Adj.) -having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about

23. Radiate: (v.) -diverge or spread from or as if from a central point; emit (energy, especially light or heat) in the form of rays or waves

24. Unbearable: (Adj.) -not able to be endured or tolerated; insufferable

25. Elude: (v.) -evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.

26. Gall: (n.) - bold and impudent behavior; brazenness; annoyance; irritation

27. Riven: (Adj.) - split or torn apart violently.

28. Righteous: (Adj.) -(of a person or conduct) morally right or justifiable; virtuous

29. Dissipate: (v.) - (with reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear; squander or fritter away

30. Indolent (adj.)- wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy, idle, lethargic