The Screwtape Letters Vocab

very enthusiastic or passionate

• ardent

• piqued

• insipid

• ingrained

short-lived or temporary

• venial

• undulation

• wanton

• transitory

undisciplined; unrestrained; reckless; of a cruel or violent action, deliberate and unprovoked

• rhapsody

• wanton

• insipid

• piqued

a temporary stay; a brief visit; to stay for a time; to reside temporarily

• undulation

• anodyne

• sojourn

• endemic

a rising and falling in waves; a wavelike motion

• venial

• platitude

• undulation

• continence

easily excused or forgiven

• venial

• barbarous

• amenable

• rhapsody

speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm

• rhapsody

• qualms

• connoisseur

• ardent

The military has no _____ about defending our country.

• ingrained

• insipid

• qualms

• rhapsody

Mrs. Piper is

a ______ in fine chocolates.

• connoisseur

• sojourn

• wanton

• platitude

The orange-breasted sunbird is ______ to South Africa, found exclusively there.

• barbarous

• ingrained

• endemic

• anodyne