//------------------------------// // Definitions // Story: TiM: The Truth in Meanings // by Twidashforever //------------------------------// Definitions • Act 1 o Impossible: Not possible, unable to be, exist, happen. o Bittersweet: Both pleasant and painful or regretful. o Necessary: Being essential, indispensable, requisite. o Pyrrhic Victory: A victory or goal achieved at too great a cost. o Prophecy: To predict with assurance or on the basis of mystic knowledge. o Cost: The price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain something. o Home: The place or region where something is native or most common. • Transition 1 o Peregrination: Travel from one place to another, especially on foot. • Act 2 o Repugnance: A strong distaste, aversion, or objection, antipathy o Elysium: The abode of the blessed after death, a place or state of perfect happiness. o Gehenna: Any place of extreme torment or suffering. o Tartarus: A sunless abyss, below Hades o Omnipotent: Almighty or infinite in power, as God. o Vis-à-Vis: Face to face o Sisyphus: Son of Aeolus punished forever by having to roll a stone to the top of a hill. • Transition 2 o Abeyance: Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension • Act 3 o Catastrophe: Sudden and widespread disaster. o Perplexing: To cause to be puzzled or bewilder over what is not understood or certain. o Pandemonium: A place or scene of notorious uproar or utter chaos. o Veracity: Truth. o Purgation: The act of purging. o Love: A profoundly tender, passionate, affection for another. o Remorseful Suffering: A sense of deep regret and guilt for agony, torment and pain. • Act 4 o Persevering: To persist in an undertaking, maintain purpose in spite of difficulty. o Safeguard: Something that serves as a protection or defenses or that ensures safety. o Impasse: A position or situation from which there is no escape, a deadlock. o Dire Straits: A state of extreme distress. o Belated: Late, delayed, or detained. o Divulge Crux: Disclose or reveal a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point. o Choice: Selecting from several alternatives, picking by personal preference. • Epilogue o Consummation: The ultimate end, finish.