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Chapter One-six vocabulary Flashcards

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Victorian era

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1800s, Queen Victoria ruled, England was the most powerful nation in the world

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Gothic

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Germanic language, pointed arches, find buttresses, large windows, and elaborate tracery

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Idolatrous

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Worshiping idols

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Diligence

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Careful and persistent work or effort

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Obeisance

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Deferential respect, through a gesture

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Solemn

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Formal, dignified, serious

not cheerful or smiling

Deep sincerity

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Prodigious

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Unnatural,abnormal, remarkably or impossibly

great in extent,size,or degree

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Salient

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Most noticeable or important

to stand on hind paws

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Imperious

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Assuming power or authority without justification

arrogant or domineering

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Intonation

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The rise and fall of the voice in speaking

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Aquiline

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Like an eagle

Nose is hooked or curved

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Saturnine

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Manor of slow and gloomy

Persons features dark in coloring

mysterious, moody

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Preternatural

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Beyond what’s normal or natural

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Diffuse

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Spread or a cause to spread out over a wide area, or large amount of people

not concentrated

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Prosaic

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Unromantic

Having style or diction of prose

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Sanguine

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Optimistic or positive

a blood red color

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Precipice

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Very steep rock face or cliff

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Veritable

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Used as an intensifier, often to qualify metaphor

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Nocturnal

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Awake at night

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Acumen

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The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions

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Ribald

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Refering to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way

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Ponderous

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Dull, laborious, or excessively solemn

Slow and clumsy because of great weight

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Assiduously

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To be methodical, careful, and very persistent

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Dictatorial

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Ruler with total power

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