Unit 4: Vocabulary from Readings

This list covers “maggie and milly and molly and may," "The Raven," "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf," "The Highwaymen of Hounslow Heath," "The Highwayman," and "We Wear the Mask."
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  1. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
    milly befriended a stranded star
    whose rays five languid fingers were
  2. implore
    beg or request earnestly and urgently
    “Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore..."
  3. obeisance
    bending the head or body in reverence or submission
    Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
    But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door
  4. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
    Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
    By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore
  5. craven
    an abject coward
    “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
    Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore
  6. divine
    perceive through some inexplicable perceptive powers
    This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
    To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
    This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
  7. leer
    a suggestive or sneering look or grin
    Then added with a frightful leer,
    “I’m therefore going to wait right here
    Till Little Miss Red Riding Hood
    Comes home from walking in the wood.”
  8. audacious
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
    And when one audacious villain pasted notices on the doors of rich Londoners telling them they should not venture forth with less than a watch and 10 guineas, the whole town was convulsed with laughter.
  9. antiquarian
    expert in or collector of artifacts or objects from the past
    When James Maclaine accidentally wounded Horace Walpole while attempting to rob him, the antiquarian bore no grudge and wrote to tell him so.
  10. claret
    a dark purplish-red color
    A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of fine doe-skin.
  11. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
    We wear the mask that grins and lies,
    It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes—
    This debt we pay to human guile
  12. myriad
    too numerous to be counted
    With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
    And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Created on Wed Jan 06 10:31:07 EST 2021 (updated Mon Jan 11 16:06:20 EST 2021)

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