Key Vocabulary in Jekyll & Hyde

Question 1

What is meant by macarb?

Answer 1

disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death

Question 2

What is meant by aberration?

Answer 2

a state or condition markedly different from the norm

a disorder in one’s mental state

Question 3

What is meant by abhorrent?

Answer 3

inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant.

Question 4

What is meant by allegory?

Answer 4

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Question 5

What is meant by allusion?

Answer 5

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Question 6

What is meant by anxiety?

Answer 6

a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.

Question 7

What is meant by atavism?

Answer 7

reversion to an earlier type; throwback.

Question 8

What is meant by consciousness?

Answer 8

the state of being aware of and responsive to one’s surroundings.

Question 9

What is meant by debased?

Answer 9

reduced in quality or value.

Question 10

What is meant by degenerate?

Answer 10

having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline. An immoral or corrupt person.

Question 11

What is meant by depraved?

Answer 11

morally corrupt; wicked

Question 12

What is meant by duality?

Answer 12

the quality or condition of being dual.

Question 13

What is meant by duplicity?

Answer 13

the state of being double.

Question 14

What is meant by epistolary?

Answer 14

in the form of letters.

Question 15

What is meant by ethics?

Answer 15

moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity.

Question 16

What is meant by eugenics?

Answer 16

the science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.

Question 17

What is meant by feral?

Answer 17

in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication.

Question 18

What is meant by genre?

Answer 18

a style or category of art, music, or literature.

Question 19

What is meant by metamorphosis?

Answer 19

the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.

Question 20

What is meant by perversion?

Answer 20

distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.

Question 21

What is meant by professional?

Answer 21

relating to or belonging to a profession.

Question 22

What is meant by respectability?

Answer 22

the quality of being socially acceptable.

Question 23

What is meant by restraint?

Answer 23

a measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control.

Question 24

What is meant by savage?

Answer 24

fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.

Question 25

What is meant by subconscious?

Answer 25

of or concerning the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one’s actions and feelings.

Question 26

What is meant by suppression?

Answer 26

the action of suppressing something such as an activity or publication.

Question 27

What is meant by supernatural?

Answer 27

attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.

Question 28

What is meant by unorthodox?

Answer 28

contrary to what is usual, traditional, or accepted; not orthodox.

Question 29

What is meant by victorian?

Answer 29

a person who lived during the Victorian period.