Ozymandias of Egypt: Vocabulary (2)

Ms. Checka (United States of America)
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  1. antique
    made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age
    I MET a traveller from an antique land
  2. vast
    unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope
    Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
  3. desert
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
    Stand in the desert.
  4. visage
    the human face
    Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
  5. sneer
    a facial expression of contempt or scorn
    And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command 5
  6. passion
    a strong feeling or emotion
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
  7. survive
    continue in existence after
    Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
  8. mock
    treat with contempt
    The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed;
  9. pedestal
    an architectural support or base
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
  10. despair
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
  11. decay
    the organic phenomenon of rotting
    Round the decay
  12. colossal
    so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
  13. wreck
    something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
  14. level
    a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Created on Wed Sep 05 10:41:24 EDT 2012 (updated Wed Sep 05 10:52:55 EDT 2012)

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