American Lit Vocab Week 2

Dejection

• a state of melancholy depression
• a large and often sumptuous tent
• stale and unclean smelling
• difficult or impossible to perceive

Ravenous

• difficult or impossible to perceive
• a group of people sharing similar wealth and status
• extremely hungry
• a state of melancholy depression

Unscrupulous

• difficult or impossible to perceive
• extremely hungry
• without principles
• a large and often sumptuous tent

Whim

• a group of people sharing similar wealth and status
• serving to bring to mind
• a large entrance or reception room or area
• a sudden desire

Tranquil

• not agitated
• a sudden desire
• an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice
• go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way

Poise

• great coolness and composure under strain
• open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning
• someone who looks pale, ashen and ghostly
• in a scornful way that shows disdain.

Circumstantial

• neatly skillful and quick in one's movements
• suggesting that something is true without proving it
• compose, perform, or produce something such as music or a speech without preparation; improvise
• irritable and quarrelsome

Surmise

• arrogantly superior and disdainful
• impossible to pass through or enter or impossible to understand
• a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
• in a way that is so slight, gradual, or subtle as not to be perceived

Superfluous

• extremely small
• more than is needed, desired, or required
• loud and harsh; grating.
• behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to other

Solidarity

• having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing
• soft, padded textile covering that is fixed to furniture such as armchairs and sofas
• at the same time.
• a union of interests or purposes among members of a group