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| having sufficient skill, knowledge, etc; capable |
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| to prevent from possessing or enjoying; dispossess |
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| liable to happen soon; impending |
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| characterized by actions based on sudden desires, whims, or inclinations rather than careful thought: |
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| to handle or use, esp with some skill, in a process or action |
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| to be in awe of and respect deeply; venerate |
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| arousing or likely to inspire fear or dread |
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| incapable of being placated or pacified; unappeasable |
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| lacking the means of subsistence; totally impoverished |
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| to relieve (pain, grief, etc) or be relieved |
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| 1570s, from fore + shadow; the notion is of a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed ; foreshadowing |
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| a transition in a novel, film, etc, to an earlier scene or event |
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an extended simile, as used in the epic poetry of Homer and other writers |
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1530s, from M.L. affixare, freq. of L. affigere (pp. affixus ) "fasten to," from ad- "to" + figere "fasten" (see fix). First used by Scottish writers and perhaps from M.Fr. affixer, a temporarily re-Latinized spelling of O.Fr. afichier (modern Fr. afficher ). |
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| modern scholars believe she came |
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