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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

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In a lively manner

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Apprehension

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An anxious feeling of foreboding; dread

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Finger-post

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A directional sign shaped like a pointing finger

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Execrating

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Cursing

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Pilfering

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Stealing

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Exonerated

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Declared blameless and free of guilt

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Perspicuity

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Clarity in statement or expression

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Sagaciously

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In a keenly perceptive manner

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Farinaceous

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Consisting of flour

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Discomfited

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Made to feel uneasy

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Beggar my Neighbor

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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

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Covered with trappings or ornaments

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Nevvy

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Nephew

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Épergne

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Ornamental dish with several compartments, used as a centerpiece for a dining table

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Sal volatile

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An aromatic mixture used as smelling salts

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Depreciatory

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Meant to belittle

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Unremunerative

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Unrewarding

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Indentures

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Contracts binding people to work for another for a specific period of time

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Ostentatiously

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In a showy manner

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Mollified

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Made less severe, intense, or violent; softened

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Rantipole

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A rude, boisterous boy

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Bound out of hand

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Made an apprentice immediately

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Melancholy

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Sad and gloomy

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Inscrutably

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Mysteriously

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Excrescence

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An abnormal outgrowth

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Cain

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Adam and Eve’s eldest som, who killed his brother Abel

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Wandering Jew

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Character in medieval folklore, condemned to wander earth restlessly because of his scornful attitude at Christ’s crucifixion

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George Barnwell

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Title character of a popular play, where an apprentice robs his employer and murders his uncle

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Vexation

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An annoyance

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Disconcerted

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Frustrated; upset

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Timon of Athens

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Title character of play by Shakespeare; Timon is a bitter man who hates mankind

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Beadle

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A messenger of a law of court

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Coriolanus

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Title character of a play by Shakespeare; Coriolanus’s arrogance causes him to be banished from Rome

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Subterfuge

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A strategem used to hide one’s own true objective or to evade an unpleasant situation; deception

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Obtruded

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Forced upon (someone) unwillingly

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Pervading

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Spreading throughout

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The rich king and the kingdom of Heaven

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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

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Act of dealing with others in a proud or haughty way

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Miscreant

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Evil person or criminal

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hackney-coachman

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Driver of a horse-drawn coach for hire

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Hammercloth

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Cloth covering the driver’s box in a coach

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Equipage

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Carriage used on formal occasions with horses, driver, and liveried servants

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portmanteau

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Stiff leather suitcase that opens into two compartments

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Magnanimous

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Generous in overlooking an injury or insult

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Handel

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George Frederick Handel, German-born English composer

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Perseverance

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Quality of putting forth a continued, patient effort; persistence

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Asseverates

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Asserts

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The City

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The business, financial, and judicial district of London

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Venerated

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Deeply respected

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Abject

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Miserable; wretched

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Collation

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A light meal

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Amiable

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Good-natured; friendly

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Woolsack

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Cushion where Lord of Chancellor sits in the British House of Lords

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Mitre

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An ornamental cap worn by a bishop

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Niggardly

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Miserly

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Brittania metal

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A base alloy used in making everyday tableware

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Freehold

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Real estate that can be passed on through inheritance

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Macbeth

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Famous tragedy by Shakespeare, noted for its scenes involving witches

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Morose

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Ill-tempered; gloomy

Great Expectations Vocabulary (1 decks)

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