Les Miserables Vocabulary Menu Visual Flash Cards

Question 1

Abstruse

Answer 1

Difficult to understand; obscure

Question 2

Asperity

Answer 2

Harshness of tone or manner

Question 3

Avaricious

Answer 3

Having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain

Question 4

Bourgeois

Answer 4

A bourgeois person.: “ a self confessed and proud bourgeois.”

Question 5

Churlish

Answer 5

Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

Question 6

Conclave

Answer 6

A private meeting

Question 7

Denizen

Answer 7

An inhabitant or occupant of a particular place

Question 8

Efface

Answer 8

Erase (a mark) from a surface

Question 9

Guise

Answer 9

An external form, appearance or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something

Question 10

Ignominy

Answer 10

Public shame or disgrace

Question 11

Iniquitous

Answer 11

Grossly unfair or morally wrong

Question 12

Lugubrious

Answer 12

Looking or sounding sad and dismal

Question 13

Pallor

Answer 13

An unhealthy pale appearance

Question 14

Paroxysm

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A sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity.

Question 15

Pedantry

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Excessive concern with minor details and rules

Question 16

Penury

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Extreme poverty; destitution

Question 17

Perfidious

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Deceitful and untrustworthy

Question 18

Puerile

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Childishly silly and trivial

Question 19

Venial

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Denoting a sin that is not regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace

Question 20

Audacious

Answer 20

Showing a willingness to take a surprisingly bold risk