Far From the Madding Crowd Vocab Flashcards by bazel reehee

misty

“On Sundays he was a man of misty views”

wet-eyed

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hamper

to impede

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unstinted

unrestrained

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fob

a chain connected to a pocket watch

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tarry (v.)

“many of the hues and curves of youth had tarried on to manhood”

to linger

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factitious

“whether the smile began as a factitious one to test her capacity in that art – nobody knows”

fake/artificial

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espial

an act of observing/noticing/spying

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convexity

a shape curved outward

(like the outer surface of a bowl)

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antiphony

alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts

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leeward

downwind

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reconnoitre

scouting/observing to get information

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uninitiated

“a shepherd’s hut now presenting an outline to which an uninitiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.”

not having the special knowledge of a particular group; not initiated

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juncture

“This venture…was a critical juncture with Gabriel Oak”

a critical point in time

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depute

“he wisely refrained from deputing the task…to a hireling or a novice.”

to delegate/assign tasks (to a subordinate)

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ovine

relating to sheep

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beguile

“Beside the provisions lay the flute, the notes of which had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour”

to cause time to seemingly pass quickly through an enjoyable pastime

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prosily

“Oak knew her instantly as the heroine of the yellow aggon, myrtles and looking-glass: prosily, as the woman who owed him twopence.”

in a boring way/manner

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ensconce

“Here he ensconced himself”

to settle comfortably

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conning

reckoning

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contretemps

inopportune or embarrassing event

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usurer

a loan shark

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coterie

“one might fancy scandal and tracasseries to be no less than the staple subject of these little **coteries ** on roofs than of those under them.”

a circle of people who associate with one another for a common purpose; a clique

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unpropitious

unfavorable; untimely

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liturgical

of religion

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commination

a formal denunciation, especially one threatening divine punishment

timorous

timid, shy, fearful

hauteur

arrogance

moiety ## Footnote "Farmer Oak had one-and-a-half Christian characteristics too many to succeed with Bathsheba at present: his humility, and a superfluous **moiety** of honesty."

a share or portion, especially a smaller share

staple ## Footnote "In substance [George's fur] had originally been hair, but long contact with sheep seemed to be turning it by degrees into wool of a poor quality and **staple**."

regularly produced in large qualities

arrant

(pejorative) completely, downright, utter

attenuated ## Footnote "over it hung the **attenuated** skeleton of a chrome-yellow moon"

made/become weak

untoward ## Footnote "George's son...was considered too good a workman to live -- and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot...another instance of the **untoward** fate which so often attends dogs"

unfavorable; improper

dandle

to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, usually said of a child

wend ## Footnote "The path **wended** through water meadows traversed by litle brooks"

to proceed upon some course/way

helter-skelter

in a confused/disorder haste

femelle ## Footnote "'She's a very vain **feymell**-- so 'tis said here and there.'"

a female (pejorative)

stile

a vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder

rick | *never gonna give you up~* ## Footnote "The blaze...showed him as he drew nearer the outlines of **ricks** beside it"

straw, wood, etc. used for winter fodder

preclude

rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible

superincumbent

lying or resting on something else

restive ## Footnote "These two seemed to keep at a distance from the fire, that the horse might not become **restive**."

uneasy, fidgety, anxious, restless

indurate ## Footnote "There was a wie margin of grass along here, and Gabriel's footsteps were deadened by its softeness even at this **indurating** period of the year."

to harden/make calloused

dulcet ## Footnote "The voice was unexpectedly attractive: it was the low and **dulcet** note suggestive of romance; common in descriptions, rare in experience."

sweet; melodious

modulation ## Footnote "She seemed to be won by Gabriel's heartiness, as Gabriel had been won by her **modulations**."

inflection; variation of tone/pitch/intensity of a sound

ingenuous ## Footnote "the fact that she did add more seemed to proceed from an unconscious desire to show unconcern by making a remark, which is noticeable in the **ingenuous** when they are acting by stealth."

obvious; unable to mask one's feelings

penumbra

a partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse

ocular ## Footnote "The conversation...immediately ceased, and every one ocularly critised him"

pertaining to the eyes; visual

similitude

similarity

surfeit ## Footnote "Shepherd Oak...was **surfeited**, and felt he would never adopt that plan for hiding trepidation any more."

to be filled to the excess

tipple ## Footnote "'That one too, that we had at Buck's Head on a White Monday, was a pretty **tipple**"

a (alcoholic) drink

parson ## Footnote “One day **Parson** Thirdly met him”

a Protestant minister

counterpoise ## Footnote "this state may be either the mediocrity of inadequacy, as was Oak's, or what we will venture to call the mediocrity of **counterpoise**, as was Boldwood's."

equilibrium of balance

inanition ## Footnote "That stillness, which struck casual observers more than anything else in his character and habit, and seemed so precisely like the rest of **inanition**, may have been the perfect balance of enormous antagonistic forces—positives and negatives in fine adjustment."

a spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose/will to live

vernal ## Footnote "The wind, which had been blowing east for several weeks, had veered to the southward, and the middle of spring had come abruptly—almost without a beginning. It was that period in the **vernal** quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season."

relating to spring

apotheosis ## Footnote "Thus a mild sort of **apotheosis** took place in his fancy, whilst she still lived and breathed within his own horizon, a troubled creature like himself."

exaltation

palisade ## Footnote "The outskirts of this level water-meadow were diversified by rounded and hollow pastures, where just now everything that was not a buttercup was a daisy, losing this character somewhat as they sank to the verge of the intervening river. It slid along noiselessly as a shade, the swelling reeds and sedge forming a flexible **palisade** along its moist brink."

a defensive barrier often made out of pointy sticks

gradation ## Footnote "Boldwood went meditating down the slopes with his eyes on his boots, which the yellow pollen from the buttercups had bronzed in artistic **gradations**."

a passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another

rill ## Footnote "They were let out against the stream, and through the upper opening, all impurities thus flowing away below—Cainy Ball and Joseph, who performed this latter operation, being if possible wetter than the rest; they resembled dolphins under a fountain, every protuberance and angle of their clothes dribbling forth a small **rill**."

a rivulet

superintendence ## Footnote "The dairy **superintendence** shall be done by a man—I can afford it well—you shall never have so much as to look out of doors at hay-making time, or to think of weather in the harvest."

supervision

supererogatory ## Footnote "He was close to her doors: his standing was sufficient: his qualities were even **supererogatory**."

doing more than necessary

temerity ## Footnote "Bathsheba’s was an impulsive nature under a deliberative aspect. An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit, she often performed actions of the greatest **temerity** with a manner of extreme discretion."

audacity

venial ## Footnote "This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most **venial** sin."

forgivable

reticence ## Footnote "But she forbore to utter this feeling, and this **reticence** of her tongue only made the loquacity of her face the more noticeable."

restraint

anathematize ## Footnote "the impetuosity of passion unrequited is bearable, even if it stings and **anathematizes**—there is a triumph in the humiliation, and a tenderness in the strife."

to cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil; to condemn or deprecate

equanimity ## Footnote "Moreover she had hardly recovered her **equanimity** since the disturbance she had suffered from Oak's remarks."

the state of being calm, stable, and composed under stress

livid ## Footnote "Here, after the lapse of a few minutes, several more fell down, and lay helpless and **livid** as the rest."

pale or pallid

harry ## Footnote "you won't **harry** me and storm at me, will you"

to harass

gage ## Footnote "Bathsheba's companion, as a **gage** of their reconciliation, had been granted a week's holiday to visit her sister"

a pledge/ransom

desultory ## Footnote "she moaned in a **desultory** way"

disconnected; jumping from one thing/subject to the next without rational connections

perjured | adj. ## Footnote "O you **perjured** woman! How can you speak that wicked story!"

pertaining to perjury: lying or breaking an oath

stricture ## Footnote "except indeed in that of being utterly sceptical on **strictures** that she knows all the time to be true"

rules that restrict behavior/actions

helpmate ## Footnote "Perhaps in no minor point does woman astonish her **helpmate** more than in the strange power she possesses of believing cajoleries"

spouse

coterie ## Footnote "that world of daylight **coteries** and green carpets, wherein cattle form the passing crowd and winds the busy hum"

a group of people with shared interests/beliefs/hobbies; a clique

compass ## Footnote "That minute’s interval had brought the blood beating into her face, set her stinging as if aflame to the very hollows of her feet, and enlarged emotion to a **compass** which quite swamped thought."

range; full extent of something's reach

pare ## Footnote "you have been within half an inch of being **pared** alive two hundred and ninety-five times"

to skin; to cut or shave the outer skin of something off | like paring a pear

obviate ## Footnote "The risk of injuring you through your moving was too great not to compel me to tell you an untruth to **obviate** it."

to avoid (a future problem/situation)

sibilation ## Footnote "These circumambient gleams were accompanied by a keen **sibilation** that was almost a whistling"

a hissing sound

circumambient ## Footnote "These **circumambient** gleams were accompanied by a keen sibilation that was almost a whistling"

encompassing/surrounding

verdure ## Footnote "The middle, within the belt of **verdure** was floored with an impressible carpet of moss and grass intermingled"

greenness of lush or growign vegetation

swashing ## Footnote "Infantry cuts and guards are more interesting than ours, to my mind; but they are not so **swashing**."

crushing or resounding | could also mean swaggering in this case if Troy is being unserious

thresh ## Footnote "Four, as if you were **threshing**...The thrusts are these: one; two; three; four"

to beat with a tool

blooming ## Footnote "How blooming you are today!"

thriving in health, beauty, and vigor

stave ## Footnote "Next year they would...defy all invaders, who did not come armed with ladders and **staves** to take them"

ladder rungs

gin ## Footnote "Perhaps in setting a **gin** I have caught myself"

a snare or trap

quiescent ## Footnote "Her beauty, which, whilst it had been **quiescent**, he had praised in jest, had in its animated phases moved him to earnest"

inactive, quiet

cavil ## Footnote "I am too gratified to get such a mark of your friendship at any price to **cavil** at the tone"

to criticize for petty reasons

seriate ## Footnote "the remainder was a mere question of time and natural **seriate** changes"

arranged in an ordered series

penchant

inclination, liking

flexuous ## Footnote "They consisted in about equal proportions of gnarled and **flexuous** forms, the former being the men, the latter the women, who wore tilt bonnets covered with nankeen, which hung in a curtain upon their shoulders"

winding from side to sidet

stentorian ## Footnote "Here the only sounds disturbing the stillness were steady munchings of many mouths, and **stentorian** breathings from all but invisible noses, ending in snores and puffs like the blowing of bellows slowly"

loud, booming, powerful

ochreous ## Footnote "The sun went down in an **ochreous** mist"

brownish-yellow

swain ## Footnote "the worthy toper old Silenus amused on a similar occasion the **swains** Chromis and Mnasylus"

a servant

attar ## Footnote "there arose that buzz of pleasure with is the **attar** of applause"

a perfume or essential oil

evince ## Footnote "young Bob Coggan **evinced** one of those anomalies which will afflict little people when other persons are particularly serious"

to demonstrate

hermetical ## Footnote "young Bob Coggan evinced one of those anomalies which will afflict little people when other persons are particularly serious, and, in trying to check his laughter, pushed down his throat as much of the tablecloth as he could get hold of, when after continuing **hermetically** sealed for a short time, his mirth ultimately burst out through his nose."

airtight

diffidently ## Footnote “'I always tries to keep my colours from rising when a beauty’s eyes get fixed on me,'” said Joseph, **diffidently**

in a timid manner; timidly

blithe ## Footnote "Inwardly too he was **blithe**, and consequently chatty to an exceptional degree"

nonchalant

skein ## Footnote "This evening Bathsheba was unusually excited, her red cheeks and lips contrasting lustrously with the mazy **skeins** of her shadowy hair"

a web/weave/tangle

junket ## Footnote "'We workfolk shall have some lordly **junketing** to-night,' said Cainy Ball."

to feast

dudgeon ## Footnote "'Ye have a right to believe it,' said Henery, with **dudgeon**."

haughty indignation

froward ## Footnote "I once hinted my mind to her on a few things, as nearly as a battered frame dared to do so to such a **froward** piece"

disobedient

ecclesiastical ## Footnote "The fact that four centuries had neither proved it to be founded on a mistake, inspired any hatred of its purpose, nor given rise to any reaction that had battered it down, invested this simple grey effort of old minds with a repose, if not a grandeur, which a too curious reflection was apt to disturb in its **ecclesiastical** and military compeers."

of a church

compeer ## Footnote "The fact that four centuries had neither proved it to be founded on a mistake, inspired any hatred of its purpose, nor given rise to any reaction that had battered it down, invested this simple grey effort of old minds with a repose, if not a grandeur, which a too curious reflection was apt to disturb in its ecclesiastical and military **compeers**."

an equal/peer

neap ## Footnote "The spring tides were going by without floating him off, and the **neap** might soon come which could not."

lowest point in of a tide

for the nonce

for the time being

convalescence ## Footnote "Here she sat down and hastily scribbled a note between the small convulsive sobs of **convalescence** which follow a fit of crying as a ground-swell follows a storm/"

a gradual healing

pertness ## Footnote "Such **pertness** would have damned a little less beauty"

impudence

inconsequent ## Footnote "That Bathsheba was a firm and positive girl, far less **inconsequent** than her fellows, had been the very lung of his hope"

illogical

tergiversation ## Footnote "Boldwood had for the first time been awakened to woman’s privileges in the practice of tergiversation"

evasion, especially to gain more time

enervate ## Footnote "It was only whispered, for something unutterably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion **enervated** the feminine instinct for punctilios."

to reduce the strength

punctilio ## Footnote "It was only whispered, for something unutterably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion enervated the feminine instinct for **punctilios**."

strictness for formality

stripling ## Footnote "I'll horsewhip the untimely **stripling** for this reckless theft of my property"

a lad; a young man in the phase between childhood and adulthood

solicitude ## Footnote "She panted with **solicitude** when she thought of possible injury to Troy."

anxiety

pellucid ## Footnote "The dark rotundity of the earth appeared foreshores and promontories of coppery cloud which bounded a green and **pellucid** expanse in the western sky"

transparent; clear

interstice ## Footnote "The notes flew forth with the usual blind obtuseness of inanimate things—flapping and rebounding among walls, undulating against the scattered clouds, spreading through their **interstices**"

a crack or gap; a cranny

abut ## Footnote "The paddock **abutted** on this end of the building"

to border upon; to be next to

gypsy ## Footnote "They were a woman and a **gipsy** man."

a traveller

extemporize ## Footnote "Having neither bit nor bridle, Oak and Coggan **extemporized** the former"

to adapt or improvise

embower ## Footnote "She turned her head...passed through the gate, and was soon wrapped in the **embowering** shades of mysterious summer boughs."

to shelter with foliage

vagary ## Footnote "'A strange vagary, this of hers, isn’t it, Oak?' said Coggan, curiously."

a caprice or whim

Lammas ## Footnote "The oat-harvest began, and all the men were afield under a monochromatic **Lammas** sky"

early August

swath ## Footnote "out-of-doors the whetting of scythes and the hiss of tressy oat-ears rubbing together as their perpendicular stalks of amber-yellow fell heavily to each **swath**."

the track/path cut by a scythe

somnabulist

a sleepwalker

peal ## Footnote "Another **peal** of laughter."

a loud sound

antiquarian

a collector or expert on antiques

sallow ## Footnote "The fields were **sallow** with impure light"

rostrum ## Footnote "immediately opposite to Oak a **rostrum** had been erected"

a dais, pulpit, or similar kind of platform

recumbent ## Footnote "Troy in his **recumbent** wife’s lap formed now the sole spectacle in the middle of the spacious room."

lying down

stentorian ## Footnote "Here the only sounds disturbing the stillness were steady munchings of many mouths, and **stentorian** breathings from all but invisible noses"

loud, booming

Hinnom

basically Hell on earth; a city in near Jerusalem where people would sacrifice children and other bad stuff would go down

Far From the Madding Crowd Vocab Flashcards

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