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Wittles

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Food, snacks

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Pollard

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Trees with their branches cut back to promote new growth

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Battery

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Military fortification equipped with guns

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Gibbet

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Structure like gallows, from where the corpses of criminals would be hung as a warning to others

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Connubial

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Of marriage

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Trenchant

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Incisive, forceful

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Consternation

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Great fear or shock that makes one feel helpless or bewildered

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Garret

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An attic

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Hulks

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An old, no longer seaworthy ship used as a prison

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Interlocutor

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A person taking part in a conversation

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Imprecations

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Curses

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Penitentials

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Clothing that a penitent person might wear

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Accoucheur

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A male midwife

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Appropriated

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Took for one’s own without permission

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Corn-chandler

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A grain merchant

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Declamation

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A dramatic or blustering speech

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Presentiment

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A feeling that something unpleasant will soon happen; a foreboding

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Intimated

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Announced formally

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Hypothetical

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Based on supposition

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Homily

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A sermon

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Commiserating

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Showing sorrow or pity for

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Contumaciously

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In a stubbornly disobedient way

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Spasmodic

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Characteristic of a spasm: sudden, violent, and temporary; frenzied

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Omnipotent

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All powerful in a domineering or overbearing manner

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Vivaciously
In a lively manner
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Apprehension
An anxious feeling of foreboding; dread
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Finger-post
A directional sign shaped like a pointing finger
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Execrating
Cursing
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Pilfering
Stealing
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Exonerated
Declared blameless and free of guilt
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Perspicuity
Clarity in statement or expression
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Sagaciously
In a keenly perceptive manner
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Farinaceous
Consisting of flour
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Discomfited
Made to feel uneasy
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Beggar my Neighbor
Card game where object is to acquire all of opponent's cards; to beggar means to make poor but also to make seem inadequate
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Caparisoned
Covered with trappings or ornaments
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Nevvy
Nephew
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Épergne
Ornamental dish with several compartments, used as a centerpiece for a dining table
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Sal volatile
An aromatic mixture used as smelling salts
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Depreciatory
Meant to belittle
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Unremunerative
Unrewarding
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Indentures
Contracts binding people to work for another for a specific period of time
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Ostentatiously
In a showy manner
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Mollified
Made less severe, intense, or violent; softened
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Rantipole
A rude, boisterous boy
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Bound out of hand
Made an apprentice immediately
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Melancholy
Sad and gloomy
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Inscrutably
Mysteriously
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Excrescence
An abnormal outgrowth
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Cain
Adam and Eve's eldest som, who killed his brother Abel
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Wandering Jew
Character in medieval folklore, condemned to wander earth restlessly because of his scornful attitude at Christ's crucifixion
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George Barnwell
Title character of a popular play, where an apprentice robs his employer and murders his uncle
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Vexation
An annoyance
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Disconcerted
Frustrated; upset
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Timon of Athens
Title character of play by Shakespeare; Timon is a bitter man who hates mankind
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Beadle
A messenger of a law of court
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Coriolanus
Title character of a play by Shakespeare; Coriolanus's arrogance causes him to be banished from Rome
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Subterfuge
A strategem used to hide one's own true objective or to evade an unpleasant situation; deception
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Obtruded
Forced upon (someone) unwillingly
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Pervading
Spreading throughout
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The rich king and the kingdom of Heaven
An allusion to Matthew 19:24: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for man to enter into the kingdom of God"
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Condescension
Act of dealing with others in a proud or haughty way
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Miscreant
Evil person or criminal
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hackney-coachman
Driver of a horse-drawn coach for hire
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Hammercloth
Cloth covering the driver's box in a coach
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Equipage
Carriage used on formal occasions with horses, driver, and liveried servants
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portmanteau
Stiff leather suitcase that opens into two compartments
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Magnanimous
Generous in overlooking an injury or insult
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Handel
George Frederick Handel, German-born English composer
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Perseverance
Quality of putting forth a continued, patient effort; persistence
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Asseverates
Asserts
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The City
The business, financial, and judicial district of London
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Venerated
Deeply respected
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Abject
Miserable; wretched
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Collation
A light meal
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Amiable
Good-natured; friendly
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Woolsack
Cushion where Lord of Chancellor sits in the British House of Lords
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Mitre
An ornamental cap worn by a bishop
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Niggardly
Miserly
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Brittania metal
A base alloy used in making everyday tableware
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Freehold
Real estate that can be passed on through inheritance
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Macbeth
Famous tragedy by Shakespeare, noted for its scenes involving witches
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Morose
Ill-tempered; gloomy

Great Expectations Vocabulary (1 decks)

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