Period 5, your words
are as follows:
- lethargic: lacking in energy; sluggish; apathetic
- flora: the plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period
- fidelity: loyalty; faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief
- cupidity: greed for money or possessions
- aphrodisiac: a food, drink, or drug which stimulates physical desire
- phobia: an extreme or irrational fear which interferes with a person's life
- maniac: a person with extreme behaviour, esp. violent or dangerous; an obsessive enthusiast
- mnemonic: a device that helps one to remember (a short poem, and image, a jingle)
- mortuary: a funeral home or morgue
- panacea: a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
- geriatrics: the branch of medicine dealing with the health and care of the elderly
- fauna: the animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period
- insomnia: an inability to sleep
- thronged: densely gathered group of people; clustered; massed
- parentage: the identity or origin of one’s parents
- illicit: forbidden; taboo
- narcissist: one who is vain, selfish, overly self-involved
- venture: a risky undertaking or risky journey
- citadel: a high fortress
- wither: to become dry and shrivelled
- dalliance: casual involvement with something (esp. a romantic or sexual relationship)
- phlegmatic: an unemotional, calm disposition
- peripatetic: travelling from place to place, esp. working or based in different places
- inveigle: to persuade someone to do something especially by means of flattery or deception
- choleric: bad tempered
- brood (v): to think deeply on something that causes one unhappiness
- insouciant: showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent
- callous: having an insensitive or cruel disregard of others
- admonish: to warn or reprimand firmly; to advise or urge earnestly
- wistful: having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing; nostalgic
- to scuttle: to run hurriedly or furtively with quick steps; to sink one’s own ship
- thrall: the state of being in someone’s power or of having great power over others
- fecund: producing/capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile
- festooned: adorned with ribbons, garlands, or other decorations
- blasphemy: profane talk; the act of speaking irreverently about God or other sacred things
- chasm: deep fissure in the earth or other surface; a profound difference between people
- to keen: to wail in grief for a dead person
- heathen: a non believer; what people who belong to a widely held religion call others who do not belong to a world-wide, organized religion
- forsaken: abandoned; deserted
- ministration: the provision of assistance or care; the services of a minister or religious institution
