Vocabulary

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Ascetic

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Sever self discipline. One who avoids self indulgence e.g. Gatsby

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Culpable

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Deserving blame e.g. Daisy, Lord Henry, Iago

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Denigrate

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To criticize unfairly e.g. Wilson

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Pragmatic

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A practical and sensible approach rather than a theoretical one. For example making pragmatic decisions about life e.g. Othello

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Raucous

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Making a harsh or loud noise e.g. The clown

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Stoic

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Being Indifferent to pain or pleasure

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Bolster

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To support or strengthen

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Profanity

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Blasphemous or obscene language e.g. Othello and Iago

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Vehement

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A strong or passionate feeling e.g Desdemona vehement about her love for Othello

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Facile

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To ignore the complexity of an issue , to look at something only superficially e.g. Desdemona

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Penchant

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A strong admiration or liking for something. she has a penchant for everything pink e.g Frankenstein has a penchant for creating a creature

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In a state of excitement, agitation, trembling

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Acquiver

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Pernicious

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Causing harm or ruin e.g. Lord Henry

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Surpassing, exceeding, or going beyond ordinary limits

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Transcendent

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ineffable

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unable to be described or expressed in words

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Sagacious

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Having Keen mental discernment and judgement

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Strongly infatuated or obsessed

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Besotted

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Florid

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Elaborate or intricate

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Plethora

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Excess or overabundance

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Found everywhere, present, appearance e.g Lord Henry in Dorian’s life and the monster in Frankenstein

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Ubiquitous

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Self-restraining, also the longest word in the English language to use all five vowels in order once. Synonyms Ascetic

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Abstentious

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Ability, skill

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Acumen

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Anagnorisis

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The main character recognises or discovers another character’s true identity or the true nature of their own circumstances.

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A story that didn’t actually happen

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Anachronistic

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Friendliness

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Conviviality

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Excogitate

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To plan, IAGO

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Florid 2

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Having a red or flushed complexion

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Environment

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Milieu

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Auspicious

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Signalling a positive future

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Cynosure

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Centre of attention

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Ennui

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A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement

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Angst

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An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety

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Capricious

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Determined by chance or impulse rather than necessity

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Disheveled

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In disarray, extremely disorderly

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a very short time

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Giving attention to detail

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Fastidious

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Someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

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Hedonist

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Relating to amoral or conniving political principles

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Machiavellian

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Intended to attract notice and impress others

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Ostentatious

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Having or showing arrogant superiority

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Supercilious

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Retrospective

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Looking back on or dealing with past events or situations

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Repugnant

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• Extremely distasteful, unacceptable • In conflict or incompatible with

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Catharsis

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The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from strong or repressed emotions

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Monopolise

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Obtain exclusive possession or control of

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Egocentric

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Thinking only of oneself without regard for the feelings or desires of others, self-centred

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exonerate

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To release a person of their fault or wrong doings

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inexorable

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impossible to stop or prevent

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bourgeoisie

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the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes

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evasive

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tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation especially by responding only indirectly

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imbue

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To fill up with or become soaked in an idea or emotion

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epistolatory

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A literary work in the form of letters

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opprobrium

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harsh criticism, disgrace, reproach

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Bildungsroman

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A novel dealing with one persons formative years or spiritual education

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macabre

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disturbing because concerned with causing a fear of death

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Anarchic

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With no controlling rules or principles to give order

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Obscure

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Not discovered or known about

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Treatise

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A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject

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Dichotomy

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Division into two

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Gaudiness

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The quality of being unpleasantly bright in color or decoration

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Sacrilegious

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Extremely disrespectful towards something considered sacred

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Visceral

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Relating to deep inward feelings rather than to intellect

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Difficult to interpret or understand, mysterious

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Enigmatic

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earnest

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resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction

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Cynicism

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An inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest, skepticism

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Compulsion

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An irresistible urge to behave in a certain way

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Nihilistic

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rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless

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Libertine

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a person who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles

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Rakish

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Having or displaying disreputable qualities or appearance

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Cosmopolitan

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including people from many different countries