217826800 | Utopia | An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects | |
217826801 | physiognomy | the art of judging human character from facial features | |
217826802 | tribunal | a seat or court of justice | |
217826803 | venerable | commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position | |
217826804 | ignominy | great personal dishonor or humiliation | |
217826805 | mien | bearing or manner, especially as it reveals an inner state of mind | |
217826806 | preternatural | out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural | |
217826807 | phantasmagoria | a fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever | |
217826808 | iniquity | gross immortality or injustice; wickedness | |
217826809 | sage | on venerated for experience, judgement, and wisdom | |
217826810 | exhort | to urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal | |
217826811 | lurid | causing shock or horror | |
217826812 | paramour | a lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship | |
217826813 | infamy | evil fame or reputation | |
217826814 | progenitor | a direct ancestor | |
217826815 | plebeian | of belonging to, or characteristic of commoners | |
217826816 | alchemy | a medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity | |
217826817 | martyr | one who chooses to suffer death than renounce religious principles | |
217826818 | talisman | an object marked with magical signs and believed to confer on its bearer supernatural powers or protections | |
217826819 | aver | to affirm positively; declare | |
217826820 | mutable | capable of or subject to change or alteration | |
217826821 | caprice | an impulsive change of mind | |
217826822 | dearth | a scarce supply; a lack | |
217826823 | imp | a mischievous child | |
217826824 | panoply | a splendid or striking array; ceremonial attire with all accessories | |
217826825 | latent | present or potential but not evident or active | |
217826826 | antipathy | a strong feeling of aversion or repugnance | |
217826827 | presentiment | a sense that something is about to occur; a premonition | |
217826828 | dissemble | to disguise or conceal behind a false appearance; to make a false show of; to disguise or conceal one's real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance | |
217826829 | somnambulism | sleepwalking | |
217826830 | zenith | the point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer | |
217826831 | erudite | characterized by erudition; learned | |
217826832 | bane | fatal injury or ruin | |
217826833 | sportive | playful, frolicsome | |
217826834 | recompense | to award compensation to | |
217826835 | necromancy | the practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future; black magic, sorcery; magic qualities | |
217826836 | apotheosis | exaltation to devine rank or stature; glorification | |
217826837 | stigma | a mark or token of infamy, disgrace, or reproach |
Dickinson Vocab
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