Week 12: Miller

Cordiform

Elegy

Metapolitics

Profligate

Svelte

Emaciated

Pernicious

Requiem

Macabre

Hirsute

Adjective

Example Sentence: Recently, I've been on the lookout for a cordiform baking pot: I think cooking in something heart-shaped sounds really cute.

Definition: Being in the shape of a heart; heart-shaped

Noun

Example Sentence: He was never very interested in metapolitics as he felt they were too complicated and hard to understand.

Definition: theoretical or philosophical political science.

Noun

Example Sentence: My friends typically make fun of me for my somber taste in music, but I think elegies are powerful and full of emotion.

Definition: A song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation, especially for one who is dead.

Adjective

Example Sentence: I didn't like the svelte designs of these new buildings; I much preferred the rough, historical ones that had been there previously.

Definition: Having clean lines; sleek

Adjective

Example Sentence: She was always much too scared to eat mushrooms for fear that they were actually pernicious ones.

Definition: Highly injurious or destructive; deadly

Definition: Any musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the dead.

Noun

Example Sentence: While I typically associated the slow, steady chords of the organ with requiems, she thought the sound was joyful.

Adjective

Example Sentence: We were really worried for my cat as she looked emaciated and small, and the visit to the vet only confirmed our fears.

Definition: Abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease

Adjective

Example Sentence: She quite liked macabre decorations and had fake skulls, images of ghosts, and dark colors surrounding her room.

Definition: 1. Gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible 2. Of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer and uglier aspect.

Definition: 1. Hairy; shaggy 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of hair

Adjective

Example Sentence: The hirsute dog shed all over the house.

Adjective

Example Sentence: In class, we learned about the largest mansion in the world, which was a profligate attempt at flaunting wealth.

Definition: 1. Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute 2. recklessly prodigal or extravagant.