Mr. Vasquez
THE LADY OR THE TIGER?
VOCABULARY
Barbaric: Crude, has a lack of restraint in taste, style, or manner.
Progressiveness: Promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new
policies, ideas, or methods.
Florid: Very ornate, flashy, or showy.
Untrammeled: Not limited or restricted, unrestrained.
Exuberant: Lavish; extravagant.
Withal: In addition; besides.
Self-communing: Communion with one's self; thoughts about one's self.
Genial: Having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner.
Semified: To become reduced to a half of what it used to be.
Valor: Courage and boldness.
Rhapsodies: Enthusiastic expression of feeling in speech or writing.
Inevitable: Impossible to avoid or prevent.
Amphitheater: An oval or round structure having tiers of seats rising gradually outward
from a central open space or arena.
Impartial: Not partial or biased.
Incorruptible: Incapable of being morally corrupted or ruined.
Emanated: To come or send forth, as from a source.
Engrafted: To plant firmly; establish.
Idealism: The act or practice of envisioning things in an ideal form, something that is
regarded as a standard or model of perfection or excellence.
Aforementioned: Mentioned previously.
Impartial: Not partial or biased; unprejudiced.
Mr. Vasquez
Procured: To get by special effort; obtain or acquire.
Doleful: Filled with or expressing grief or sadness.
Wended: To proceed on or along; go.
Subordinate: Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.
Retribution: Something given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment.
Choristers: Singers in a choir.
Epithalamia: A lyric ode or song in honor of a bride and bridegroom.
Solemnized: Celebrated or observed with dignity and gravity or seriousness.
Tribunal: A committee or board appointed to adjudicate (judge) in a particular matter.
Fervent: Having or showing great emotion.
Imperious: Arrogantly domineering or overbearing.
Courtiers: An attendant at a sovereign's (king’s) court.
Unsurpassed: Not capable of being improved on.
Ardor: Fiery intensity of feeling.
Waver: To become unsteady or unsure; falter.
Aesthetic: Of or concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste.
Thronged: To crowd into; fill.
Personage: A person of distinction or importance.
Moiety: A part, portion, or share.
Fervid: Marked by great passion or zeal.
Parapet: A low protective wall or railing along the edge of a raised structure such as a
roof or balcony.