English Vocab

Cards (28)

  • divinity:
    • the quality associated with being God, a god, or a goddess
  • mysticism:
    • the belief that personal communication or union with the divine is achieved through intuition, faith, ecstasy, or sudden insight rather than through rational thought
  • unsentimental:
    • not emotional; unaffected by emotional matters
  • initiation:
    • action that causes something, especially an important process or event, to begin
  • fascist:
    • somebody who supports or advocates a system of government characterized by dictatorship, centralized control of private
  • pious:
    • devoutly religious
  • abyss:
    • a chasm or gorge so deep or vast that its extent is not visible
  • anguish:
    • extreme anxiety or emotional torment
  • oppressive:
    • imposing a harsh or cruel form of domination
  • infernal:
    • so wicked or cruel as to be worthy of hell
  • innumerable:
    • too many to be counted
  • queue:
    • to form a line while waiting for something
  • inadequate:
    • failing to reach an expected or required level or standard
  • solemn:
    • demonstrating sincerity and gravity
  • interminable:
    • so long and boring or frustrating as to seem endless
  • feeble:
    • lacking physical or mental strength or health
  • liberate:
    • to release an individual, group, population, or country from political or military control or from any severe physical constraint
  • meager:
    • unsatisfactory in quantity, substance, or size
  • automaton:
    • somebody who resembles a machine by obeying instructions
  • apathy:
    • lack of interest in anything or the absence of any wish to do anything; lack of enthusiasm or energy
  • dregs:
    • the last remaining and often least attractive part of something
  • robust:
    • strong, healthy, and hardy in the constitution
  • simultaneously:
    • at the same time
  • vulnerable:
    • open to emotional or physical danger or harm
  • beseech:
    • to ask earnestly or beg somebody to do something
  • summons:
    • an authoritative demand to appear at a particular place for a particular propose
  • timid:
    • demonstrating a lack of courage or self-assurance
  • resistance:
    • an illegal secret organization that fights for national freedom against an occupying power, especially one that fought in France, the Netherlands, Denmark, or Italy during World War II