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Unit 3 Scala Vocab

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Inviolable

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(adj.) not able to be ruined; intact (Were they my brothers, my uncles, those creatures shuffling brimstoneeyed from room to room, or sitting separate, isolated, muttering forever like underground rivers, each in his private, inviolable gloom?)

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Dogmatism

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(n.) the arrogant assertion of an opinion without proof or evidence ... industrious and witless as worker antsexcept that they make small, foolish changes, adding a few more iron pegs, more iron bands, with tireless dogmatism.

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Ominous

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(adj.) evil, threatening, sinister It was slightly ominous because of its strangenessno wolf was so vicious to other wolvesbut I half believed they weren't serious.

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Petulant

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(adj.)- irritable; moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance: "And by changing men's minds he makes the best of it. Why not?" But it sounded petulant; and it wasn't true, I knew.

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dirge

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(n.) a funeral hymn, a song or poem of grief Then the groaning and praying stop, and on the side of the hill the dirgeslow shoveling begins.

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Degenerate

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(n., adj., v.) having fallen below a normal or desirable level, especially in physical or moral qualities; deteriorated; degraded Rushing, degenerate mutter of noises I send out before me wherever I creep, like a dragon burning his way through vines and fog.

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Sycophant

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(n.) a person who tries to gain favor by flattering influential people "No offense," I say, with a terrible, sycophantish smile, and tip an imaginary hat.

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docile

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(Adj.)Ready and willing to be taught; teachable; yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable

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Enmity

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(n.) hostility, often mutual; antagonism I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.

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futile

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(adj.) having no useful result The dogs fall silent at the edge of my spell, and where the king's hall surmounts the town, the blind old Shaper, harp clutched tight to his fragile chest, stares futilely down, straight at me.

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