Vocabulary Word
Word: languish
Definition: lose animation or strength
Definition: lose animation or strength
Sentences Containing 'languish'
Art, like life, is apt to languish if it gets too far away from primitive conditions.
What matters really, not only to me, but to officers of justice and the king, is that an innocent man should languish in prison, the victim of an infamous denunciation, to die here cursing his executioners.''
More Vocab Words
::: ordeal - severe trial or affliction; difficult experience; trial(test of patience or endurance); affliction::: apologist - one who writes in defense of a cause or institution; N. apologia
::: prerogative - privilege; unquestionable right; CF. ask before
::: brusque - blunt; abrupt; curt; not wanting to waste time being nice
::: exhort - urge (by strong argument or advice); Ex. The general exhorted his men to fight bravely; N. exhortation
::: largess - generous gift (given to people who do not have enough)
::: cartographer - map-maker
::: ichthyology - study of fish; CF. ichthyo-: fish
::: physiognomy - face (as showing the character and the mind); art of judging human character from facial features
::: labile - likely to change; unstable; Ex. emotionally labile; N. lability
