Vocab Picture Dictionary

By Sydney Adams

1. apathy

Definition: lack of emotion and indifference

2. deportees

Definition: people officially ordered to leave a place

3. billeted

Definition: assigned lodging

4. blandishment

Definition: flattering remarks that are meant to be persuasive

5. firmament

Definition: sky; heavens

6. premonition

Definition: feeling that something will happen; advanced warning

7. infernal

Definition: hell; hellish

8. pillage

Definition: to violently steal from; loot

9. Scapegoat

Definition: a person or group of people on who is blamed for others problems

10. hermetically

Definition: in an air tight way

11. lamentation

Definition: an expression of grief and sadness

12. pestilential

Definition: like an infectious disease; harmful; deadly

13. paternal

Definition: fatherly

14. lucidity

Definition: clear thinking; clarity

15. benediction

Definition: blessing

16. tempest

Definition: Storm

17. contagion

Definition: spreading disease or something one person catches from another

18. countenance

Definition: face

19. crucible

Definition: severe test

20. mountebanks

Definitions: fakers; quacks; ineffective persons

21. privations

Definition: acts taking away the necessities of life;great losses

22. spasmodically

Definition: in spasms: in bursts; convulsively

23. liquidated

Definition: got rid of; killed

24. innumerable

Definition: more than can be counted; a great many

25. wizened

Definition: old and has a lot of lines on their skin