Glossary

  • Futile.- Means there’s no point in what ever you’re doing because it would not be successful.
  • Highwayman.- In former times, People who stopped troublers and robbed them.
  • Citadel.- A strong building where people could take shelter.
  • Hiatus.- A pause or a gap in which nothing happens.
  • Trudges.- To walk slowly and with heavy steps.
  • Nihilistic.- Someone who doesn’t trust political and religious authority and puts their trust in them. Its antithetical to the reputedly meaningful aspects of life.
  • Chastice.- The way of speaking to someone in an angry man.
  • shunning.- To deliberately avoid someone or to stay away.
  • reconstructing.- To put something back together that had previously fallen apart, only this time make it better.
  • Pseudonym.- Its a name that someone usually writer uses instead of their own name.
  • anthropomorphisms.- Is an idea than an animal, a God or an object could have feeling as those of a human.
  • Questhetic relation.- a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste and with the creation and appreciation of beauty

“Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept”

  • metaphore.- A figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
  • Congealed.- A type of liquid which becomes very thick and sticky and almost solid.
  • Melioraton.- The linguistic process by which a word over a period of time grows more elevated in meaning or more positive in connotation.

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