Under the Dome Glossary

Under the Dome Glossary

Interstellar

occurring or situated between stars

Pity

to feel sorry for someone

Clarity

the quality of being clear and coherent

Vicinity

the area near or surrounding a particular place

Atone

when you make amends or reparation for what you did, usually when you did something wrong

Incompetent

not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully

Omnipotent

when a God has unlimited power

Ignorant

lacking knowledge or awareness and being rude

Diminish

when something becomes less

contingent

Subject to conditions or provisional terms.

lackadaisical

Careless with attention and focus; lazily indifferent.

chagrined

Mortified and shamed.

incommunicado

Unwilling to communicate by choice or unable to communicate by circumstance.

augment

To improve, make more significant or increase admiration of something by addition, enlargement or intensification.

derogatory

A disparaging and degrading critique.

wraith

A spectral figure associated with the return of a spirit after death, often a hideous entity inspiring great fear.

coterie

A small associated of people with a shared interest and intent, usually conveyed as meeting clandestinely to strategize against majority rule.

Karmic Retribution

The spiritual outcome of the belief that every bad need a person does eventually comes back to bite them in the butt.

posthaste

Expedited in the speediest possible manner.

narcissism

A personality disorder characterized by viewing everything that happens from the perspective of how it affects you or how it is somehow about you.

Geiger counter

An instrument for measuring levels of radioactivity.

moribund

In the final stages of life and doomed to certain death.

incantatory

Words recited in a manner intent on using them to cast magic spell or place a curse.

Draconian

Measures or enforcement of laws in a manner excessively harsh in relation to the violation committed.

equanimity

A placid sensation of contentment that things will work out just fine even the face of situations producing extreme anxiety in others.

truculence

Expressions of sullen combativeness or exhibitions of belligerent insolence.

callow

Descriptive of someone who acts immaturely and lacks worldly experience.

paucity

An insufficiency or scarcity.

advent

The celebrated and observed arrival of someone or something of significance.

emaciated

Thin and malnourished to the point of starting to look skeletal.

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