Bluest Eye Spring vocabulary

misanthrope

[n] one who hates or mistrusts humankind

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annihilate

[v] to destroy completely, to obliterate

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antipathy

[n] strong feeling of hatred, aversion, revulsion

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asceticism

[n] renouncing material comforts, living a life of renunciation and self-discipline

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celibacy

[n] sexual abstinence, especially for religious vows

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arabesque

[n] a complicated, intricate, or symmetrical pattern or design

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disquiet

[adj] disturbed, unsettled, anxious, troubled

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lascivous

[adj] given to or expressing lust or lewdness; salacious

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predilection

[n] a liking, a disposition toward something

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anarchy

[n] the absence of political authority, laws, rules; a state of lawlessness (but not nevessarily chaos)

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invincible

[adj] incapable of being destroyed or defeated

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avocation

[n] hobby or calling outside of one's work

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awry

[adj] misshapen, turned, twisted, wrong, as in "his plans went awry"

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poignant

[adj] keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; profoundly moving emotionally

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indolence

[n] habitual laziness

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abhor

[v] to loathe, to hate

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imbibe

[v] to drink( as in liquid) or to drink in (as in ideas)