LotF Vocab

• Strident

  Unpleasantly loud/harsh
• Hiatus

  An interruption in the intensity or amount of something
• Immured

  Lock up or confine, as in a jail cell
• Specious

  Plausible but false
• Effigy

  A representation of a person
• Pliant

  Capable of being shaped/bent/drawn out
• Pall

  Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
• Tacit

  Implied by or inferred from actions or statements
• Sinewy

  Consisting of tendons or resembling tendons
• Corpulent

  Excessively large
• Vicissitudes

  A variation in circumstances or fortune
• Contrite

  Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
• Discursive

  Tending to cover a wide range of subjects
• Perilous

  Full of danger
• Ensconce

  To fix firmly
• Diffidently

  To do something without confidence
• Bastion

  A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
• Leviathan

  The largest or most massive thing of its kind
• Vexe

  Persistently troubled, especially with petty annoyances
• Assimilating

  Capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution
• Myopia

  A lack of discernment, insight, or foresight
• Derisive

  Expressing contempt or ridicule
• Antiphonal

  Alternately containing or using responses
• Enmity

  A state of deep-seated ill-will
• Inscrutable

  Of an obscure nature