Great expectations\ Flashcards
lured
To lead someone into danger
with the promise of pleasure or
reward; an attraction or appeal
wrought
worked
wilful
Determined to do what you
want to do
dissociate:
separate
wretched
very unhappy
hankerings after
To really want
something, to crave or desire it
gentility:
being like the upper class
aspirations
hopes or desires
innermost
most private and deeply felt
strayed
move away aimlessly from a group or from the right course or place
encounter
unexpectedly experienced
hem
the very bottom bit of the clothing.
conscience
an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to
the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior
lingering
lasting for a long
time or slow to end
impending:
about to happened
eliciting
a responded, an answer or a fact
brewery
a place where beer is made commercially
inwardly
registered or existing
in the mind but not expressed to
others
dexterous
skillful
nook
corner
obtruded
become noticeable in an unwelcome way
light-hearted
cheerfully happy
appalled
go white with fear and horror
denuded
taken off
hyperbole
exaggerate
nicety
precision
spirit
courage
beckoned
to move your hand or head in a way that tells someone to come nearer
laboring boy
practical work, especially when it involves hard physical effort
ragged
clothes in not a very good condition
shroud:
a cloth for
wrapping
disdain
a feeling that someone is not
respecting you.
