Vol 3 vocab Flashcards
great expectations
discomfiture (adj)
a feeling of unease or embarrassment; awkwardness
supercilious (adj)
behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others; condescending
despotic (adj)
tyrannical
doleful (adj)
mournful
tacit (adj)
understood or implied without being stated; unspoken
disquiet (adj)
a feeling of worry or unease
penitent (adj)
feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; remorseful
vivacity (n) OR vivacious (adj)
The quality of being attractively lively
obdurate (adj)
stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action; stubborness
abeyance (n)
a state of temporary disuse or suspension
sanguine (adj)
optimistic or positive
injunction (n)
a warning or order
malefactor (n)
a person who commits a crime or some other wrong; criminal
bilious (adj)
affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting
assiduity (n) OR assiduous (adj)
constant or close attention to what one is dong
ostentatious (n)
mercy; lenience, particularly with respect to punishment
ineptitude (adj)
lack of skill or ability; incompetence
guileless (adj)
innocent
spurn (v)
reject
