The Voice at 3:00 AM Glossary

The Voice at 3:00 AM Glossary

provocative

Suggestive and enticing; controversial and thought-provoking; outrageous and inspiring.

chastely

Modestly and with an eye toward remaining within the boundaries of polite decorum.

anarchism

Fervent belief than when a system has become corrupted beyond repair, everything must be torn down and destroyed in order to rebuild a new system from the ground up.

ambiguous

A situation in which meaning is open to a number of interpretations which are all roughly equally valid.

interminable

Tedious and ceaselessy annoying with no hope for an end in sight.

betrothal

A promise of fidelity and constancy through an agreement to become engaged with the intent to marry.

encroaching

Intruding upon another without permission or warrant.

prodigal

Describing someone who is reckess with their spending; the connotation of enormousy wasteful can aso allow the word to be used to describe an abundance of wasted resources.

insomniac

A person who has trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep.

martyrdom

A state of reference and admiration given only as the resut of dying in the defense of a deeply held conviction.

crucified

Characterizing someone who has become the object of criticism so extreme and severe that the critique has passed over into the realm of having their very character judged.

rapt

Utterly and comprehensively engrossed by a subject.

provisory

Stipulating that conditions are subject to, dependent upon, contingent on or qualified by specific restrictions.

Euclid

Ancient Greek mathematician considered the Father of geometry.

hawkers

An obnoxious seller of cheap merchandise.

sepia

Yellowish tint often applied to contemporary film and video to endow them with the illusion of simulated aging.

parquetry

Patterned tiles of wood used for flooring.

derelicts

People without a home or job.

furtive

Sneaky, secretive and surreptitious.

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