Vocabulary Word
Word: intangible
Definition: not able to be perceived by touch; vague
Definition: not able to be perceived by touch; vague
Sentences Containing 'intangible'
The uncontrollable and hopeless mass of decomposition so engendered, would have polluted the air, even if poverty and deprivation had not loaded it with their intangible impurities; the two bad sources combined made it almost insupportable.
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil;--Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it.
More Vocab Words
::: badger - pester; annoy continually with demands; persuade by asking again and again; Ex. The children badgered me into taking them into the cinema; N: a kind of mountain animal::: noncommittal - neutral; refusing commitment to a particular opinion; unpledged; undecided
::: bowdlerize - expurgate; CF. Thomas Bowdler
::: venerable - deserving high respect; commanding respect; CF. command: deserve and get
::: humanitarian - one devoted to the promotion of human welfare; CF. humanism
::: queue - line (of waiting people or vehicles)
::: representational - (of a style of art) showing things as they actually appear in real life
::: monogram - design composed of one or more initials of a name; V.
::: rend - split; tear apart; N. rent; CF. heartrending: causing deep sorrow
::: annul - make void
