Oliver Twist
Terms
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copy deck
- render
- a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
- abhor
- find repugnant
- mimic
- someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
- enthrone
- provide with power and authority
- ruffian
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- beadle
- a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services
- felicity
- pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
- lamentation
- a cry of sorrow and grief
- Indigence
- a state of extreme poverty or destitution
- indolent
- of tumors e.g.
- pauper
- a person who is very poor
- scaffold
- a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
- knavery
- lack of honesty
- tenant
- a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
- swoon
- a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
- magistrate
- issues court orders and hears preliminary evidence in a case to determine whether the case should be brought to trial
- impiety
- unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god
- err
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- turnkey
- someone who guards prisoners
- gruel
- a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)
- disassemble
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- tremulous
- (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
- genteel
- marked by refinement in taste and manners
- psalm
- any sacred song used to praise the Deity
- visage
- the appearance conveyed by a person's face
- wither
- wither, especially with a loss of moisture
- blaspheme
- speak of in an irrevent or impious manner
- scoundrel
- n. A mean or wicked person.
- quaint
- strange in an interesting or pleasing way
- parlor
- A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
- malice
- the quality of threatening evil
- admonition
- cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger)
- notorious
- known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
- benevolent
- having or showing or arising from a desire to promote the welfare or happiness of others
- destiny
- an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
- civility
- the act of showing regard for others
- parsonage
- an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector