More Vocabs!

seer: a person who prophesies future events; prophet. "She felt chilled. She scooped Elphaba up and hugged her tightly. Elphaba sagged as if boneless in her arms, neither fussing nor returning the hug, just falling limp from the novelty of being touched. "Are you a seer?" said Melena. "Turtle Heart to blow glass," he said. He seemed to mean that as an answer." - page 35

syntax: the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words.
unabashed: ashamed or embarrassed. "She was sloping downward into his crippled syntax, in unabashed sympathy. "Can you really to see that in there?" - page 37

reticence: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely. it basically means silence. "She was usually bold with her kisses and he found her reticence alarming until he realized there was a stranger in the shadows." - page 38

trinket: a small ornament, or a piece of jewelry usually of little value. "He found in his pouch a trinket he'd whittled for her, a little sparrow with a cunning break and upraised wings." - page 38

episcopal: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church. "He had imagined he happiness Melena would have as a society dame, presiding over feast day dinners and charity balls and episcopal teas." - page 39

ruminate: to meditate or muse; ponder. "Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back. As he ruminated, his beard tickled Elphaba's neck, and she snapped the wings off her wooden sparrow." - page 39

nimbus: a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding a person or thing. "His reddish hair had been washed and was drying into an airy nimbus." - page 40

tiktokism: a type of religion in the world of Oz. I tried researching more but I couldn't find anything :[ "And now respectable unionists are going in droves over to the pleasure faith," said Frex, snorting "or even tiktokism, which hardly even qualifies as a religion." - page 41

codswallop: it's a British slang for nonsense, or rubbish. "Shut up that superstitious codswallop!" shouted Frex." - page 44

barrenness: mentally unproductive; dull; stupid. desolate: abandon. "Wend Hardings is desolate, I agree, but it's a tame barrenness for all that. You're alarming me with your wolf and your tiger talk." - page 45

glib: readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so. "Don't be glib. You know she needs to get used to people other than us. She's not going to have an easy time of it anyhow, unless she sheds her greeny skin as she grows up." - page 46

warble: to sing or whistle with trills. "Look, I give her chores to do, I warble nursery rhymes at her. Melena, why doesn't she respond like other children?" - page 46

dalliance: a trifling away of time; dawdling. "Their afternoons of dalliance began to lose the heat of urgency, and developed in warmth." - page 52

contrivance: a plan or scheme; expedient. "The effect of that blasted tiktok contrivance, the Clock of the Time Dragon, had been wearing off at last-thank to the Unnamed God-and the graceless poor had been turning out to hear Frex harangue them." - page 53

insignia: a badge or distinguishing mark of office or honor. "I found a store marked with the secret insignia of the alchemist's trade." - page 59


baleful: wretched; miserable. "But when he continued along down the carriage, Galinda found that she liked even less the baleful look that the goat was giving her." - page 66

cloisonne: enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin metal bands fixed edgewise to the ground. "The Headmistress of Crage Hall, a fish-faced upper class Gillikinese woman wearing a lot of cloisonne bangles, was greeting new arrivals in the atrium." - page 67

terminus: the station or the town at the end of a railway or bus route. "Seeing her freight at the size and bustle of the terminus at Shiz, Dillamond took pity and offered to engage a carriage to take her to Crage Hall." - page 67

impertinent: trivial, silly, or absurd. "You strike me as impertinent, Miss Galinda," she said mildly.
"I have not yet struck you, Madame Morrible," Galinda delivered the daring line with her sweetest smile." - page 70



Are there any other vocabulary words that are not on this list that you are confused about? Feel free to post the word and I'll look it up for you! ;D


-MONICA SHARMA :]