Level 3 - Collection 042

Words in this collection

• idiosyncrasynoun

  A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual

• incoherencenoun

  lack of cohesion or clarity or organization

• preferencenoun

  An object of favor or choice

• periphrasisnoun

  a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

• mutablenessnoun

  the quality of being capable of mutation

• threnodynoun

  a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

• gentileadjective

  Belonging to a people not Jewish

• apologuenoun

  a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• habituationnoun

  being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

• ostraciseverb

  expel from a community or group