Great Expectations Vocabulary

Question 1

Trenchant

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incisive; forceful

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Consternation

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great fear or shock that makes one feel helpless or bewildered

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Appropriated

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Took for one’s own without permission.

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Declamation

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A dramatic or blustering speech.

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Presentiment

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A feeling that something unpleasant will soon happen; a foreboding.

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Intimated

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Announced formally.

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Commiserating

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Showing sorrow or pity for

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Spasmodic

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Characteristic of a spasm; sudden, violent, and temporary

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Omnipotent

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All-powerful

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Imperiously

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Marked by arrogant assurance

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Apprehension

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An anxious feeling of foreboding; dread

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Exonerated

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Delared blameless and free of guilt

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Perspicuity

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Clarity in statement or expression

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Sagaciously

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In a keenly perceptive manner.

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Discomfited

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Made to feel uneasy

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Unremunerative

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Unrewarding

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Ostentatiously

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In a showy manner

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Mollified

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Made less severe, intense, or violent; softened

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Melancholy

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Sad and gloomy

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Insrutably

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Mysteriously

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Vexation

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An annoyance

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Disconcerted

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Frustrated; Upset

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Subterfuge

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A strategem used to hide one’s objective or to evade an unpleasant situation

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Obtruded

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Forced upon (someone) unwillingly

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Pervading

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Spreading throughout

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Condescension

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The act of dealing with others in a proud or haughty way.

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Magnanimous

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Generous in overlooking an injury or insult

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Venerated

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Deeply respected

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Abject

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Miserable; wretched

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Amiable

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Good-natured; friendly

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Morose

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Ill-tempered; gloomy

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Facetious

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Joking, especiaooy in an ironic way or at an innappropriate time.

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Abhorrence

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Disgust and loathing

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Repugnance

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Extreme disike

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Aversion

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An intense dislike

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Impiously

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In a manner lacking reverence or respect

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Incredulous

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Showing doubt or disbelief

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Despotic

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Acting like an absolute ruler; tyrannical

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Reiterated

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Said repeatedly

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Magisterially

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In an authoritve manner

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Proffered

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Offered

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Malignity

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An intense ill will and desire to hurt others

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Detestation

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Hatred

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Plummet

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A lead weight

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Imperceptible

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So slight or gradual as not to be easily perceived

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Indelible

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That which cannot be erased

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Abstinence

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The act of voluntarioy doing without food, drink, or some other pleasure

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Clemency

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Leniency or mercy shown toward an offender

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Debilitating

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Weakening