Vocabulary Word
Word: throes
Definition: violent anguish
Definition: violent anguish
Sentences Containing 'throes'
There he sat, all alone, doubling himself up and writhing this way and that, in the throes of unappeasable laughter.
A. -LRB- After long hesitation and many throes and spasms.-RRB-
Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them round and round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing of his life-spot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would burst from his state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on fire.
Born in throes, 't is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs!
More Vocab Words
::: distraught - upset; distracted by anxiety; very anxious and troubled almost to the point of madness; Ex. distraught with grief/worry::: indicative - suggestive; implying; serving to indicate
::: promulgate - announce; proclaim a doctrine or law; make known by official publication
::: leery - (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
::: verbose - wordy; N. verbosity
::: travesty - copy or example of something that completely misrepresents the true nature of the real thing; comical parody or imitation; treatment aimed at making something appear ridiculous; Ex. travesty of justice; OP. paragon
::: ineffectual - not effective; not having a desired effect; weak
::: import - significance; importance; meaning
::: exude - flow out slowly; discharge (gradually); give forth; N. exudation
::: feint - trick; shift; sham blow; feigned attack to draw away defensive action; V.
