PB Vocab 1
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices
Satire
a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work.
Scullery
a feeling of being perplexed and confused.
Bewilderment
A period of 14 days or two weeks.
Fortnight
feel intense dislike or disgust for.
Loathe
the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages.
Antiquity
based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.
Arbitrary
person who is part of the royal court of a king or queen, an attendant to a sovereign, or someone who flatters and seeks favor, often through charm
Coutier
To shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense (condense)
Abridge
An open shed or shelter
Hovel
The face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal.
Appearance
Visage
Unspecified additional items, things, people
Et Cetera
Something of little value, substance or importance
Trifle
Having a humorous or odd quality, whimsical,
Droll
To interweave the strands or locks
Braid
Plait
The act or process of supplicating: humble and earnest entreaty.
A formal written petition
Supplication
The act or procedure of removing by or as if by cutting out.
Surgical removal
excision
A way of presenting or understanding a situation or series of events that reflects and promotes a particular point of view or set of values
Narrative
To go or travel
To move or pass along or through
traverse
An organism exhibiting deficient pigmentation
especially : a human being who is congenitally deficient in pigment and usually has a milky or translucent skin, white or colorless hair, and eyes with pink or blue iris and deep red pupil
Albino
One to whom secrets are entrusted
Confidant
A domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal that is descended from the European polecat
An active and persistent searcher
Ferret
Inability to pay debts
Insolvency
of , relating to, or constituting satire
Satiric
The quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance
An instance of disagreeing or being at variance.
Discrepancy