Vocabulary Flake - David

  • Epiphany – a moment when you feel that you understand or suddenly become conscious

  • Confidante – especially: one who is a woman

  • Jovial – characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and convivality

  • Vulgar – offensive in language

  • Arduous – hard to accomplish

  • Subjugation – to make submissive

  • Parliament – a formal conference for the discussion of public affairs

  • Remonstrate – to say or plead in protest or opposition

  • Tyrannical – characteristics of a tyrant

  • Treason – the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state

  • Illusions – a misleading image presented to the vision

  • Insidious – having a gradual and cumulative effect

  • Supplicate – to beg humbly

  • Invincible – incapable of being conquered

  • Paranoia – mental illness

  • Fanaticism – excessive and single-minded zeal

  • Inquisitor – A person making an official inquiry

  • Abrogation – to abolish by authoritative action

  • Spectral – of or like a ghost

  • Analogous – similar or comparable to something else, either in general or some specific detail

  • Trepidation – a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation

  • Persecute – to harass or punish in a manner designed to injure, grieve, or afflict

  • Theocracy – rule by religion

  • Empathy – understanding others’ feelings

  • Accuse – to blame

  • Confess – to admit wrongdoing

  • Fervor – intensity of feeling or expression

  • Apparition – an unusual or unexpected sight

  • Torment – extreme pain or anguish

  • Accusation – a claim of guilt

  • Repentance – deep regret

  • Supernatural – beyond natural laws

  • Scapegoat – one blamed unfairly

  • Manipulate – to control deceitfully

  • Pedicate – to set apart for a particular purpose

  • Conceived – formed an idea

  • Proposition – a statement or assertion

  • Liberty – state of being free

  • Resolve – firm determination

  • Semantic – related to meanings of words

  • Scholar – a learned person

  • Variations – different forms

  • Fascinated – very interested

  • Evoke – to bring a feeling

  • Normalized – turned into or expressed as a noun

  • Transcribed – written down

  • Political – related to government

  • Expressive – showing emotion

  • Command – an order

  • Impressionable – easily influenced

  • Vulnerable – easily harmed

  • Perception – understanding through senses

  • Consequence – a result

  • Patronizing – treating someone as an inferior in a condescending way

  • Authentically – genuine manner

  • Stereotypes – oversimplified ideas about a group of people

  • Dignity – self-respect

  • Empower – to give power

  • Resilience – ability to recover

  • Colored – having racial designation (historical term)

  • Circumstances – conditions or situations

  • Cosmic – related to the universe

  • Discrimination – unfair treatment

  • Privilege – unearned advantage

  • Identity – sense of self

  • Jazz – American music genre

  • Contrast – clear difference

  • Rambunctious – noisy and energetic

  • Heap – a pile

  • Fear – feeling of danger

  • Victims – those harmed

  • Suspects – possible culprits

  • Assumptions – unproven beliefs

  • Stereotypes – fixed generalizations

  • Affluent – wealthy

  • Berth – sleeping space or position

  • Warbling – singing with trills

  • Constitutuionals – walks

  • Impoverished – extremely poor