Vocabulary As I Lay Dying

hale

exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health

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dissociated

having had a relation or connection broken

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trifling

lacking in significance or worth

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irrevocable

impossible to retract or revoke

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censure

harsh criticism or disapproval

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rapt

wholly absorbed as in thought, deeply moved

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runnel

a small stream

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perverse

marked by immorality, resistant to guidance or discipline

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lowing

making the throat noise of a cow

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flouted

treated with contemptuous disregard

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bereavement

state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one

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gaunt

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

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abject

most unfortunate or miserable, showing humiliation, submissiveness, utter resignation or hopelessness

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cessation

a stopping

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approbation

official recognition or approval

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timbre

the distinctive property of a complex sound

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precursor

an indication of the approach of something or someone, a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

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ubiquity

the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)

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maul

a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges, injure badly by beating, split (wood) with a maul and wedges

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portentous

puffed up with vanity, of momentous or ominous significance

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nihilist

one who supports a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless

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opaque

not clear, not clearly understood or expressed

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irremediable

impossible to remedy or correct or redress

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composite

consisting of separate interconnected parts

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keen

having a sharp cutting edge or point, as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

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sibilance

a sound having, containing, or producing the sound of the s or the sh in sash

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travail

hard work, to labor hard

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fulcrum

the pivot about which a lever turns

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crest

the top point of a mountain or hill

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ethics

moral values and rules, ideas of right and wrong

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implacable

impossible to appease

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reproach

rebuke or criticism, disgrace or shame, express criticism towards