Engelska 7 prov: kap 2

Substantial Large in size, value, or importance

Endurance The ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time

Venture A new activity, usually in business, that involves risk or uncertainty

Species A set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other

To perish To die, especially in an accident or by being killed, or to be destroyed

Compelling If a reason, argument, etc, is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is so strong

Thoroughly Completely, very much. In a detailed and careful way

Savagery Acts of cruel and violent behaviour

Ominous Suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen, or a feeling that something unpleasant will happen

Menacing Making you think that someone is going to do something bad. Like a menacing look or gesture

Sublime Extremely good, beautiful, enjoyable, or satisfying

Awe A feeling of great respect, sometimes mixed with fear or surprise

Ratchet up To increase something in controlled stages over a period of time

Perverted An act, or something alike considered strange and unpleasant by most people, or considered unnatural or immoral

Sacrilegious Treating something holy or important without respect

Malaise A general feeling of being ill or having no energy, or an uncomfortable feeling that something is wrong, especially with society, and that you can not change the situation

Decay To become gradually damaged, worse, or less

Protagonist One of the main characters in a story

Antagonist A person who is strongly opposed to something or someone

Solitary A solitary person or thing is the only person or thing in a place

Eerily In a strange, frightening, and mysterious way

Subculture The way of life, customs, and ideas, of a particular group of people within a society that are different from the rest of that society

Appreciation The act of recognizing or understanding that something is valuable or important

Dichotomy A difference between two completely opposite ideas or things

To assign To give a particular job or piece of work to someone, or a particular value to something

To embrace To accept something enthusiastically, to express love, liking, or sympathy, or to include someone or something

Underdog A person or group of people with less power, money, etc, than the rest of society, or to be considered the weakest out of a group or in society, or least likely to win in a competition

To dwell To live in a place or in a particular way

Potent very powerful, forceful, persuasive, or effective

Paradoxical seeming impossible or difficult to understand because of containing two opposite facts or characteristics

A surge a sudden and great increase

Squalor the condition of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, often because of lack of money

Veneer something that hides something unpleasant or unwanted

Usher in to be at the start of a new period, especially when important changes or new things happen, or to cause important changes to start happening

Prudish easily shocked by rude things, especially anything related to sex

To mourn to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone's death

To erode to weaken or damage something by taking away parts of it gradually, or to become weaker in this way, often by damage because of weather, especially wind and water

Chaste not having had sex, or only having a sexual relationship with the person you are married to

Recuperate to become well again after an illness, to get back your strength, health, etc

Deviance the quality of not being usual, and of being generally considered to be unacceptable

Sodomite a word, often used as an insult, for a person who practices sodomy - anal sex

Promiscuous a person having a lot of different sexual partners or sexual relationships

Out of wedlock a person having a sexual relationship when not married and/or a child is born from it (a bastard)

Wench a young woman, often a prostitute or an insult to indicate that the woman is one

Jugular a part of the throat or/and neck (on the sides, which is where the oxygen travels)

Sacrilege an act of treating something holy or important without respect, or to fail to treat it with respect

Substantial Large in size, value, or importance

To gnash to bring your top and bottom teeth together quickly, grinding them or snapping them together

Vicariously to experience activities through other people rather than doing it yourself

Aloof Not friendly, willing, or interested to take part in something, usually because you do not approve of what is happening

A turf An area that a group considers its own

To chomp To chew food noisily, or to bite something with your teeth; often making a show of it

Latent Present but needing particular conditions to become active, obvious, or completely developed

Covert Hidden or secret. (Could also mean a group of bushes and small trees growing close together in which animals can hide, especially from people or other animals hunting them.)

Abjection A kind of depressed feeling, a bleak and heavyhearted state of mind, often from doing a series of bad jobs, disappointment and bad luck

Inherent Existing as a natural, permanent or basic part of something or someone

To concede To admit, often unwillingly, that something is true. To yield. To admit you lost, or allow something you do not agree with

Yearning A strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something that you cannot have or get easily

Liminal Between or belonging to two different places, states, etc

Poignant Causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness

Loathe To feel strong hate, dislike, or disgust for something or someone

Obscurity The state (person or situation) of being unclear or difficult to understand or see. Or the state of not being known to many people

Vicissitudes Changes that happen at different times during the life or development of someone or something, especially those that result in conditions being worse

To sap To make someone weaker, or take away strength or an important quality from someone, especially over a long period of time. Also means a stupid person who can easily be tricked or persuaded to do something

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