Transcendentalist Vocabulary

without warning; suddenly or unexpectedly

• abruptly

• askance

• surly

• deluged

an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm

• miser

• swathed

• propitiated

• inlet

deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate

• pertinacity

• meager

• toil

• inlet

a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money

• balked

• meager

• miser

• askance

lonely and sad; forsaken

• forlorn

• deluged

• incessant

• abrupt

to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified

• incessant

• forlorn

• balked

• votive

with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval

• abrupt

• askance

• incessant

• deluged

strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable:

• imperial

• toil

• propitiated

• impregnable

to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully

• forlorn

• dismal

• swathed

• surly

high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished

• propitiated

• eminent

• votive

• abrupt