English

• dichotomous - a contrast or divide between two things
• villainous - evil,unpleasant, wicked and despicable
• antithesis - opposite of something else / someone else e.g Bill Sikes and Nancy
• Steadfast - Resolutely and dutifully firm and unwavering
• zoomorphism - the idea that animals have human qualities, such as intelligence, emotions, and consciousness
• Squandered - foolishly spending money
• Exploitative - To take advantage of someone
• Audacious - showing a willingness to take risks or offend people
• Hypocrisy - Behaviour that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel
• Corruption - dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power including bribery
• Synasthesia - a technique where one sense is used to represent another
• Aristocrat - A person of high social rank often given a title
• Gothic - very gloomy or horrifying characterised darkness
• Sublime - very high quality causing great admiration
• Domestic - realting to the running of a home or family relations
• Foreboding - a feeling something bad will happen, a nervous apprehension
• Malevolent - Wishing harm to others
• Barbarous - very cruel, primitive and uncivilised
• Disparate - Essentially different in kind
• Lustily - In a strong vigorous way
• Plight - a difficult situation
• punitive - inflicting or intended as punishment
• trepidation - a feeling of nervousness or unease
• Grotesque - Repulsively ugly
• Morose - Sullen and bad tempered
• Shrouded - to cover or hide something
• Conventions - a way in which something is usually done
• Belligerent - hostile or aggressive
• Capricious - unpredictable, changeable, whimsical, or fickle
• Oxymoron - phrases that contradict itself by putting contrasting ideas together
• Impulsive - acting without thinking
• Idolise - to admire or love excessively, worshipping someone
• Omniscient - All knowing
• Prophetic - The ability to predict the future, especially the future of the world.
• Superstition - a belief in supernatural forces or in the power of luck or fate.
• Penury - the state of being very poor, extreme poverty
• Deprived - Suffering a severe damaging lack of basic needs
• Parallel - Something very similar to something else