Vocab English pt 2

Part II

1. Lightsome – free from care; lighthearted

2. Lurid – causing horror or revulsion; gruesome

3. Mirth – gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter

4. Mote – a small particle

5. Pallid – deficient in color, lacking sparkle or liveliness

6. Perpetuity – eternity; to be perpetual

7. Pious – devoutly religious

8. Remitted – to send (something, such as a dispute or a court case) to an authority that can make a decision about it; to make a payment

9. Smallage – celery

10. Smote – to strike something

11. Supraorbital – situated or occurring above the orbit of the eye

12. Tableau – a graphic description or representation

13. Temerity – unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; rashness, recklessness

14. Tarry – to stay longer than intended; delay leaving a place

15. Tempest – a violent storm

16. Thither – to or toward a place

17. Unwonted – unaccustomed or unusual (archaic)

18. Verily – in truth; certainly

19. Vindicated – to free from allegation or blame

20. Virulent – marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course