Am Lit Terms #1 HHS

Avail

To be of use to; profit; advantage.

Barbarous

Uncivilized; wild; crude.

Barter

To exchange by the use of commodities rather than money.

Benevolence

Desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness.

Binnacle

A stand or enclosure of wood or nonmagnetic metal for supporting a house or compass.

Calamity

A great misfortune or disaster, such as a flood or serious injury.

Canonized

To glorify.

Commodity

An article of trade or commerce , especially as distinguished from a service.

Conceive

To form an idea of.

Constitution

The way in which a thing is composed or made up; makeup; composition; the physical character of the body as to strength, health.

Consultation

To seek advice or information from.

Contrivance

To plan with ingenuity; devise; invent.

Couplet

A pair of consecutive rhyming lines.

Discourse

To consider or examine in speech or writing.

Doleful

Sorrowful; mournful; melancholy.

Engross

To occupy completely, as the mind or attention; absorb.

Entreaty

Earnest request or petition.

Estufa

A stove; warm room.

Exposition

The act of presenting to view; display; writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain.

Extremity

The extreme or terminal point, limit, or part of something; a limb of the body.

Fury

Unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion.

Grievous

Flagrant; outrageous; atrocious.

Incensed

The perfume or smoke arising from such a substance when burned; homage or adulation.

Manifest

Readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain.

Mediator

To settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties.

Misery

Great mental or emotional stress; extreme unhappiness.

Mollified

To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.

Narration

Recital of events, esp. in chronological order.

Omnipotent

Having great authority, or power.

Oppress

To burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints.

Ornate

Elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so.

Pamphlet

A short treatise or essay, generally a controversial tract.

Patron

A person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, esp. a regular one, of a store, hotel or the like.

Perceive

To become aware of, know or identify by the means of the senses.

Peril

Exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger.

Pilfer

To steal, esp. in small quantities.

Presumption

Belief of reasonable grounds or probable evidence.

Procure

To obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means.

Proportion

Proper relation between things and parts; relative size or extent.

Prose

The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure.

Providence

The foreseeing care and guidance of god or nature over the creatures of the earth.

Provision

A supply or stock of something provided; clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc.

Prudence

Caution with regard to practical manners; discretion.

Puritan

A person who is strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so.

Ravish

To fill with strong emotion, esp. joy; to seize and carry off by force.

Redeemer

To buy or pay off; clear by payment.

Repudiate

To reject as having no authority or binding force.

Skulk

To lie or keep in hiding as for some evil reason.

Sovereign

A monarch, king, queen, or some other supreme ruler.

Stern

Firm, strict, or uncompromising.

Succor

Help; relief; aide; assistance.

Sufficient

Adequate for the purpose; enough.

Sundry

Various or diverse.

Sustain

To support, hold, or bear up, from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.

Vexation

Annoyance; irritation.

Victual

Food or provision for human beings.

Waxing

To increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power; to grow or become.