Vocabulary Roundup - Game of Thrones, Page 250
There are words here and there while reading that I'm not sure I understand properly, or don't know at all. Facial expressions and feelings, and words for places that I never knew before, or wasn't sure of. I would continuously keep having to take breaks to find definitions for things, and sometime into the book I felt like I'd begun repeating myself. I'd been looking up words, putting it into the scene in my head, and immediately forgotten what the word meant. I decided the best thing to do would be to write down words in a notebook as I read, along with their definitions. Since I started writing, however many pages ago, I've got 23 words. And here they all are, definitions included.
*Noun
**Adjective
***Verb
- Wry
**1. Using or expressing dry, esp. mocking, humor.
**2. (of a person's face or features) Twisted into an expression of disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.
- Niggard
*A stingy or ungenerous person.
- Conjecture
*An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
**Form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information.
- Trepidation
*1. A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen.
*2. Trembling motion.
- Nonplussed
**1. (of a person) Surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react.
**2. (of a person) Unperturbed.
- Perturb
***1. Make (someone) anxious or unsettled.
***2. Subject (a system, moving object, or process) to an influence tending to alter its normal or regular state or path.
- Slight
*An insult caused by a failure to show someone proper respect or attention.
**Small in degree; inconsiderable.
***Insult (someone) by treating or speaking of them without proper respect or attention.
- Contrite
**Feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt.
- Quip
*A witty remark.
***Make a witty remark.
- Sullen
**1. Bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy.
**2. (esp. of water) Slow-moving: "rivers in sullen flood".
- Admonition
*An act or action of admonishing; authoritative counsel or warning.
- Insolent
**Showing a rude or arrogant lack of respect.
- Rankle
***1. (of a wound or sore) Continue to be painful; fester.
***2. (of a comment, event, or fact) Cause annoyance or resentment that persists.
- Lecherous
**Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.
- Sardonic
**Grimly mocking or cynical.
- Earnest
*A sign or promise of what is to come: "an earnest of the world's desire not to see the conflict repeated elsewhere".
**Resulting from or showing intense conviction: "an earnest student".
- Droll
**Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement: "his unique brand of droll self-mockery".
- Reproach
*The expression of disapproval or disappointment.
***Address (someone) in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment.
- Curt
**Rudely brief: "his reply was curt".
- Placid
**(of a person or animal) Not easily upset or excited.
**(esp. of a place or stretch of water) Calm and peaceful, with little movement or activity.
- Ford
*A shallow place in a river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across.
**(of a person or vehicle) Cross (a river or stream) at a shallow place.
- Petulant
**(of a person or their manner) Childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
- Retinue
*A group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person.
And this concludes Teto's first vocabulary roundup.
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