Poe Vocab

Coppice

A thicket, grove, or growth of small trees

Misanthropy

A hatred or mistrust of mankind

Manumitted

To release from slavery: Free

Gambols

A skipping or leaping about in play

Exacerbate

To make worse, or more violent, bitter, or severe

Supposition

Something that is hypothetical or assumed

Grandiloquent

A lofty, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality esp. in language

Allayed

To subdue or reduce in intensity or severity

Aberration

To deviate from the truth: Equivocate

Vouchsafed

To grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending way; to promise, give, or allow something

Precipitating

To throw violently: Hurl - To bring about esp. abruptly.

Equanimity

Evenness of mind especially under stress

Fallacy

A false or mistaken idea

Interloper

One that intrudes in a space or sphere of activity

Obstreperous

Marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness or unruliness

Prevarication

Straying from the right or normal way; getting out of telling the truth

Vociferated

To utter loudly: Shout

Vagaries

Erratic, extravagant, unpredictable manifestation, action, or notion

Promiscuously

Not restricted to one sexual partner

Appertain

To belong or be connected as rightful part or attribute

Abstruseness

Difficult to comprehend

Juxtaposition

The act or instance of placing two or more things side by side

Demur

Hesitation, based on the acceptability of something offered / proposed

Sanguine

Consisting of or relating to blood: Marked by high color and cheerfulness

Enigma

Something hard to explain or understand

Vicissitudes

The quality or state of being changeable: Mutability

Coadjutors

One who works together with another

Succinctly

Marked by compact, precise expression without wasted words

Phantasm

Delusive appearance: Illusion , ghost, specter

Gossamer

Something light, delicate, or insubstantial

Debauch

To corrupt by intemperance or sensuality: To seduce from chastity