Vocabulary Word
Word: miasma
Definition: swamp gas; heavy vaporous atmosphere often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence; noxious atmosphere or influence
Definition: swamp gas; heavy vaporous atmosphere often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence; noxious atmosphere or influence
More Vocab Words
::: faculty - mental or bodily powers; teaching staff::: ecosystem - ecological community together with its environment
::: billowing - swelling out in waves; surging
::: inimical - (of someone) unfriendly; hostile; (of something) harmful; detrimental; CF. enemy
::: admonish - warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; reprove
::: manifest - evident; visible; obvious; V: show plainly
::: grisly - ghastly; horrifying; Ex. grisly remains of the bodies
::: arrhythmic - lacking rhythm or regularity; N. arrhythmia
::: ventral - abdominal
::: transgression - violation of a law; sin; V. transgress: go beyond (a limit); violate; do wrong
