Grammar Vocab 1
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supercilious
behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others
Stoicism
(n.) indifference to pleasure or pain (adj.) stoic - seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain (syn.) impassive, unemotional
emissary
An agent sent on a mission
valediction
a bidding farewell; a leave-taking; a farewell speech
exegesis
an explanation of a text
maladroit
clumsy; unskillful
moribund
dying
magnum opus
great work
surrealistic
having a dreamlike or unreal quality
expository
intended to describe something
Protagonist
main character
ignominious
shameful
sarcophagus
stone coffin
Diction
word choice
Analects
written passages