Pride and Prejudice Ch. 1-16 Vocab

Question 1

affable

Answer 1

pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite

Question 2

affinity

Answer 2

a liking or sympathy for someone or something, especially because of shared characteristics

Question 3

affront

Answer 3

a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult

Question 4

ascertaining

Answer 4

determine, discover, learn, and unearth.

Question 5

circumspection

Answer 5

the quality of being careful not to take risks, careful to consider everything that might happen.

Question 6

caprice

Answer 6

a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one’s mind or the weather.

Question 7

digressions

Answer 7

the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought

Question 8

pliancy

Answer 8

willingness to change because of what other people want, or to do what other people want

Question 9

supercilious

Answer 9

behaving as if you are better than other people, and that their opinions, beliefs, or ideas are not important

Question 10

felicity

Answer 10

the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss

Question 11

proxy

Answer 11

a person holding authority to act for another

Question 12

vogue

Answer 12

popular; fashionable

Question 13

veneration

Answer 13

the feeling of a person who venerates; a feeling of awe, respect, etc.; reverence

Question 14

fastidious

Answer 14

very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

Question 15

efficacy

Answer 15

the power to produce a desired result