janey eyre vcvb Flashcards

(58 cards)

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Execration

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The act of cursing or denouncing

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Fain

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Pleased or Willing

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Prerogative

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A right of privilege

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peremptory

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putting an end to something

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Edification

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Instruction or imporvement of someone intellectually or morally

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Imputation

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A change or claim that someone has done something wrong

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Antipathy

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Deep feelings of dislike

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Impalpable

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Unable to be felt by touch, or not easily comprehended

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Ignominy

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Public shame or disgrace

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Perfidious

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Deceitful

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Ameliorate

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Make something better

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Palliate

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To make a disease or its symptoms less severe without removing the cause

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Paroxysm

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Sudden attack or violent expression of an emotion

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Sardonic

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Grimly mocking or cynical

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Acrimony

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Bitterness or ill feeling

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Affable

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Friendly,Good natured

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Contumacy

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Stubborn refusal to comply with law

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Repletion

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The act of eating to excess

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Caprice

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A sudden,impulsive, and unmotivated action

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Confabulation

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To talk informally

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raiment

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Clothing of the victorian era

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Eyrie

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Large nest of a bird of prey

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Presentiment

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Intuitive feeling about the future

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Allege
Claim or assert someone has done something
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Indolent
Wanting to avoid an activity or to be lazy and slow
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Abhor
Regard with disgust and hatred
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Ascetic
Person who practices severe discipline typically for a religious purpose
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Efface
Erase from a surface
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Purloin
To steal something
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Malignant
Malevolent, very virulent infection
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Salubrious
Healthy producing/ healthy. Vegetables are salubrious
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Despotism
To excercise power in a cruel and opressive manner
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Dreary
Gloomy or Depressing
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Efficacious
Effective in producing a result
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Malefactor
Criminal who commits wrong
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Malingerer
To pretend to be sick to skip work
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Nestled
To like comfortably
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Pernicious
Harmful in a subtle way
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regenerate
To regrow
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Succumb
To surrender to
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Vignettes
An eye catching sketch
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Cacophonous
Harsh sounding
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Complacent
Smug satisfaction with ones achievements
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Disreputable
Scandalous
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Dissonant
Lacking harmony
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Exemplary
Ideal or perfect
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Galvanizing
Shock someone into taking action
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grating
Irritating
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ignoble
dishonorable
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Mellifluous
Pleasant to hear
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Melodious
pleasant tone
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Preposterous
Absurd
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Preternatural
extraordinary or not normal
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Quintessential
Typical
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Repugnant
revolting/distasteful/ unacceptable
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Soporific
Sleepy or boring
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Valiant
Fearless/ Heroic