The Man With a Hoe Vocab

Hoe n. - a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.

Rapture n. - ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.

Stolid adj. - not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.

Stunned adj. - filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.

Pillar n. - an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument.

Firmament n. - the vault of heaven; sky.

Censure n. - strong or vehement expression of disapproval.
v. - to give censure, adverse criticism, disapproval, or blame.

Greed n. - excessive or rapacious desire, esp. for wealth or possessions.

Portent n. - Prophetic or threatening significance; something amazing or marvelous; a prodigy.

Fraught adj. - Filled with a specified element or elements; charged.

Menace n. - something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful.

Seraphim n. - a member of the highest order of angels, often represented as a child's head with wings above, below, and on each side.

Rift n. - an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.

Profane adj. - characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
v. - to misuse (anything that should be held in reverence or respect); defile; debase; employ basely or unworthily.

Distorted adj. - not truly or completely representing the facts or reality; misrepresented; false.

soul-quenched adj. - exhausted

Infamies n. - extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act.

Perfidious adj. - deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful.

Immedicable adj. – incurable.

woe n. - grievous distress, affliction, or trouble

Brute n. – a nonhuman creature; beast; brutal, insensitive, or crude person.

Rebellion n. - open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler.