Jane Eyre Vocab Chaps 3-7 Flashcards
Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; showing an impudent lack of respect.
Audacious
Matching or surpassing (a person or achievement), typically by imitation; imitate; reproduce.
Emulation
Hate or loathe-filled curses or swearing.
Execrations
Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.
Capricious
Showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.
Vehement
Robust; capable of enduring difficult conditions.
Hardy
Of various kinds; several.
Sundry
(of a woman or her appearance) dirty and untidy.
Slatternly
Constant or close attention to what one is doing or to someone else.
Assiduity
A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class; the right of the sovereign, which in British law is theoretically subject to no restriction.
Prerogatives
Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
Truculent
Annoying, awkward, or annoying due to size, weight, or complexity.
Cumbrous
An urgent need or demand.
Exigency
Extremely poor; poverty-sricken; mean.
Penurious
Each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided; a part or portion, especially a lesser share.
Moiety
Deceitful and untrustworthy.
Perfidious
The instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually.
Edification
A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of a disease or abnormality; an unattractive or superfluous addition or feature.
Excrescence
A substance that flows out of something; the action of flowing out.
Effluence
