Great Expectations Vocab Flashcards
(112 cards)
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Gibbet
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hanging post
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Flaxen
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pale, grayish yellow
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Impregnable
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not to be overcome or overthrown
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Forge
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hearth used for heating metals
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Connubial
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of marriage or wedlock
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Disconsolately
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characterized by or causing dejection
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Larceny
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the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another
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Squally
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stormy, threatening
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Trenchant
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distinct, clearly or sharply defined
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Consternation
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a sudden, alarming amazement that results in utter confusion; dismay
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Remonstrance
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a protest
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Imbruing
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to stain
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Garret
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an attic; room on the top floor
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Interlocutor
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a person who questions
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Pall
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a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin
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Owing to
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because of
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Cravat
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a cloth, often made of or trimmed in lace, worn about the neck by men especially in the 17th century
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Dispatch
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to hasten; be quick
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Ague
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a fit of fever or shivering or shaking chills, accompanied by pains in the bones and joints
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Imp
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a little devil or demon
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Imprecations
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cursing; a curse
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Constable
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a British police officer
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Prodigiously
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vast in size; abnormal
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Deuce
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slang for “where the devil?”
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Conciliatory
tending to reconcile; to make right
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Vicariously
taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute
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Penitential
a book or code of canons relating to penance or its imposition
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Banns
any public announcement of a proposed marriage
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Corn-Chandler
seller of grains
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Bobbish
hearty; in good spirits
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Regaled
to entertain with choice food or drink
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Goads
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.
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Presentiment
a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil
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Tersely
abruptly concise; curt
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Intimated
to make known; announce
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Homily
a sermon
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Commiserating
to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity
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Contumaciously
willfully and obstinately disobedient
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Billed
willfully and obstinately disobedient
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Apparition
anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling
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Joviality
the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jolly
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Arid
lacking interest or imaginativeness
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Manacled
handcuffed with shackles or irons
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Groveling
to lie or crawl downward and the body prostrate, especially in abject humility, fear, etc
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Parley
an informal conference with an enemy under a truce, as between active hostilities
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Alighted
to dismount
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Divergence
separation; deviation
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Sluce-gate
regulates the flow of water
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Mangle
a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes
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Halloa
shout to attract attention
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Catechism
an elementary book containing a summary of principles of the Christian religion
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Infirmity
a physical weakness or ailment
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Venerated
to regard or treat with reverence
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Purblind
slow or deficient in learning, imagination, or vision
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Erudition
knowledge acquired by study, research, etc
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Perspicuity
clearness or lucidity
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Uncongenial
disagreeable; not appropriate
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Sagaciously
having displayed acute mental discernment
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Ablutions
a cleansing with water
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Gormandizing
to eat greedily or ravenously
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Loiter
to waste time or dawdle
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Disputations
argumentative
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Insolently
boldly rude or disrespectful; insulting
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Capricious
erratic
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Ignominiously
humiliating, discreditable
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Monstrosity
a monster or something monstrous
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Reticence
restraint in speaking
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Adamantine
firm in attitude or opinion
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Caparisoned
to put on rich and sumptuous clothing
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Rumination
meditation, pondering
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Felicitous
well-suited for the occasion
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Derision
ridicule
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Fortuitously
lucky, fortunate
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Discomfiture
frustration of hopes or plans
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Nevvy
worker
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Superciliously
haughty, disdainful, or contemptuous
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Eddies
small current of air
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Toadies
flatterer
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Humbugs
a person who is not what they claim or pretend to be; imposter
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Epergne
an ornamental piece for the center of a table, for holding fruit, flowers, etc
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Sal Volatile
smelling salts
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Inefficiency
lack of power or capacity to produce the desired effect
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Dextrous
use of both hands equally well
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Obtruded
thrust forward; intrude
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Sanguinary
blood stained
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Trepidation
fear; trembling
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Stoldity
not easily stirred or moved
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Imbecility
stupidity
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Remunerative
not profitable
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Indentures
a contract by which a person, as an apprentice, is bound to service
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Sagacious
keen; shrewd
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Temporized
come to terms with
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Tremulous
shaking or quivering
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Abberation
mental irregularities
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Propitiation
conciliation
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Stratagem
a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy
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Untoward
unfavorable
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Vexation
annoyance
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Suppositious
hypothetical
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Subterfuge
trying to hide something
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Quailed
shrunk down in fear
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Pugilistic
a person who fights with the fists; boxer, usually a professional
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Expostulatory
to argue or reason with, especially in order to dissuade from an action or intention
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Veritable
truthful statement
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Monotonous
lacking in variety
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Exultant
highly elated; jubilant
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Audacious
fearless
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Miscreant
villain
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Vagabond
worthless
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Stupendous
causing amazement
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Flaccid
weak, limp
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Ecstatic
great rapture or delight
