Anne of Green Gables - Final Review - Vocab Flashcards
aesthetic
having to do with beauty
arduous
hard to achieve; difficult
chasten
subdued; restrained
deftly
skillfully
diligently
showing care and effort
eclipsed
deprived of prominence; surpassed
evinced
made evident; displayed
implicitly
unquestioningly; without doubt
inert
unable to move; slow
infatuated
bewitched; captivated
inscrutable
mysterious; incompreahensible
ostentatiously
in a showy, boastful manner
penitent
a remorseful, repentant person
precarious
unstable; insecure
prosaic
unromantic; dull
provincial
rural; limited
quaint
unusual; odd
sublime
supreme; splendid
succumbed
yielded; surrendered
superfluous
more than enough; excess
tempestuous
wild; unruly
unpropitious
unlucky; unfavorable
veracity
truthfulness; honesty
vivacity
liveliness; animation