Ch.6 Terms

intricate

complicated; difficult to understand

lucid

easy to understand, clear; rational, sane

ghasty

frightful, horrible

taunt

(v.) to jeer at, mock; (n.) an insulting or mocking remark

credible

believable

sardonic

grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic

diligent

hard-working

incessant

never stopping, going on all the time

posthumous

occurring or published after death

prim

overly neat, proper, or formal; prudish

tenacious

persistent

improvished

poor, in a state of poverty; depleted

doleful

sad; dreary

bondage

slavery; any state of being bound or held down

hamper

to hold back

atone

to make up for

defray

to pay for

hew

to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to

supplant

to take the place of

superfluous

unnecessary; extra