Great Expectations Vocab Selected Flashcards
Assent
V. To agree; to give one’s consent (to a proposal or request)
N. (Assent) consent; official sanction
To affront
V. To insult to the face or openly; to offend the modesty or self respect of
n. (Affront) an intentional or blatant insult
Affrontery
consternate
v. to fill with consternation; to dismay (used in passive voice)
n. (consternation) amazement or dismay such as to cause confusion
to deride
v. to laugh contemptuously or scornfully at; treat with scorn; mock (n. derision); derisive (adj.) in a contemptuous or scornful manner
dexterous
v. to defeat in battle; beat, rout; baffle, thwart, or defeat the plans of
n. complete defeat in battle; defeat or frustration of plans; utter disappointment (discomfiture)
adj. defeated or frustrated in one’s plans (discomfited)
to dissuade
v. to advise or urge (a person) against; to give advice against; discourage
to divine
v. to interpret by supernatural insight; to disclose, make known; make out by sagacity or intuition; to conjecture successfully
n. guessing by happy instant or unusual insight; successful conjecture (divination)
to divulge
v. to make publicly known; to publish (a book or statement); to decade or tell openly
to execrate
v. to utter curses; to invoke evil upon; to declare accursed
n. the uttering of a curse; swearing (execration)
to exult
v. to rejoice greatly; to be elated
exultant (adj.) triumphantly or rapturously joyous
exultation (n.)
to imbrue
v. to stain, dirty, or defile; to cover with blood from bleeding wounds
to imprecate
v. to invoke or call down (evil on a person); to beg for, entreat
n. prayer or entreaty; spoken curse (imprecation)
to reproach
v. to express disapproval to (a person), upbraid, rebuke, reproachful (adj.) in a disproving manner
reproach n.
to stipulate
v. to make a contract, bargain, or convenient; to specify or demand, especially as an essential part or condition of an agreement
stipulation n.
a whittle
n. scraps of food
