Friday, November 15, 2013

Heart of darkness Vocabulary parts 1-3

Part 1 vocabulary
Gravesend-Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. Wikipedia
  • Brooding- showing deep and unhappy thoughts.
    Personage- used to elevate the importance of a being.
    Uncanny- strange or mysterious
    Billowy- swelling or growing in waves and clouds (storms)


    Part 2 vocabulary
    Snatches-
    Pestifurious- harbor ing infection and disease.
    Sagacious- shrewdness
    Shoals- a sandbar
    Heralded- a sigh that something is going to happen


    Part 3 vocabulary
    Mötley-incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate.
    Particoloured- diffrent colors patched together.
    Cartridges- a container holding a spool of photographic film, a quantity of ink, or other item or substance, designed for insertion into a mechanism.
    Ornamentation- things added together to make decoration on something else.
    Jocose- playful and humerus 
    Satiated- another term for sate
    Innumerable- to many to count
    Droning- a constant low humming sound
    Ulster- a province in Ireland 
    Circumventing- to find a way around an obstacle 

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