Tale of Two Cities vocab-2

Question 1

demeanor

Answer 1

conduct; behavior; deportment

Question 2

profligate

Answer 2

utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated

Question 3

refractory

Answer 3

hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient

Question 4

interment

Answer 4

burial

Question 5

apostrophize

Answer 5

to address by apostrophe

Question 6

altercation

Answer 6

a heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy

Question 7

dubious

Answer 7

doubtful

Question 8

interposed

Answer 8

to place between; cause to intervene

Question 9

patricide

Answer 9

the act of killing one’s own father

Question 10

poltroon

Answer 10

a wretched coward

Question 11

visage

Answer 11

the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression

Question 12

sagacity

Answer 12

acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment

Question 13

magnanimous

Answer 13

generous in forgiving an insult or injury

Question 14

exultant

Answer 14

triumphant

Question 15

benighted

Answer 15

intellectually or morally ignorant

Question 16

functionary

Answer 16

an official

Question 17

cadaverous

Answer 17

of or like a corpse

Question 18

languish

Answer 18

to be or become weak or feeble

Question 19

chateau

Answer 19

a castle or fortress

Question 20

grenadier

Answer 20

(in the British army) a member of the first regiment of household infantry