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Advanced Vocab #5 Great Expectations Flashcards

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Battery

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Military fortification equipped with guns .

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Wittles

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Dialect for vittles, victuals–food

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Gibbet

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The structure like gallows from which the corpses of criminals would be hung as a warning to others

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Consternation

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Great fear or shock that makes one feel helpless or bewildered

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Imprecations

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Curses

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Presentiment

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Feeling that something unpleasant will soon happen, a foreboding

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Intimated

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Hinted, implied

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Exonerated

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Declared blameless and free of guilt

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Perspicuity

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Clarity in the statement or expression

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Discomfited

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Made to feel uneasy

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