The Alchemist Vocab

n - a person who has the exclusive right or title to something; an owner, as of real property

n - a highest point or state; culmination

n - a strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean

n - anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent

n - a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson

n - a chosen or taken course

adj - abounding or swarming with something, as with people

adj - feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful

n - feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful

n - an Eastern smoking pipe designed with a long tube passing through an urn of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through

"It is written"

adj - continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending

n - any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value

adj - characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable

adj - direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension

n - a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time

v - to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified

n - excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze

adj - being in its earliest period; early; simple; unsophisticated

n - a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching

adj - marked by great joy or jubilation; triumphant

adj - cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across

v - to accustom by frequent repetition or prolonged exposure

n - a sheath for a sword or the like

n - to predict according to present indications or signs; foretell to foreshadow, portend