ELA NOTES

Disclosure: the act of making something evident

Poignant: keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

Unprecedented: not known, experienced, or done before

Reedy: tall and thin, or a sound that's high-pitched

Tentatively: Uncertainty

Abominable: as bad as it gets

Threshold: the starting point for a new state or experience

Impending: close in time; about to occur

Solace: comfort offered to one who is disappointed or miserable

Conspicuous: obvious to the eye or mind

Ailment: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Encroach: Advance beyond the usual limit

Succession: to describe things that follow one another, as well as the order in which they do so

Ruse: a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

Commiserate: feel or express sympathy or compassion

Phantasm: something existing in perception only

Rhetorical: you don't necessarily expect an answer, but you do want an occasion to talk about something.

Bluster: blow hard, as of wind - talk loud, aggressive

Sterile: incapable of reproducing

Folly: the trait of acting stupidly or rashly

Palate caring ain

Palliative: Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

Indomitable: Can't be beat

Irrevocably: There is no going back

Addled: Confused and vague; used especially of thinking

Machismo: Exaggerated masculinity