Great Expectations 1-19
Great Expectations 1-19
the first stage of Pip's Expectations
the first stage of Pip's Expectations
Terms
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- impart
- make information known
- pall
- cloth spread over coffin
- Diabolical
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil
- Sagacious
- of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment
- consternation
- feelings of anxiety
- forge
- make or shape a metal object by heating it in a fire
- sportive
- lighthearted
- gibbet
- upright post where bodies of criminals were left hanging
- Insensible
- incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation
- Malignant
- passionately and relentlessly malevolent : aggressively malicious
- disdain
- feeling that someone is unworthy of one's respect
- obscure
- uncertain
- Indenture
- a contract binding one person to work for another for a given period of time —often used in plural
- felicitous
- well chosen to the circumstances
- contemptuous
- showing contempt
- rumination
- think deeply about something
- Emphatic
- attracting special attention
- Audacious
- intrepidly daring : recklessly bold
- ravenous
- extreme hunger
- denounce
- public declare to be wrong or evil
- Imperceptible
- not perceptible by a sense or by the mind
- disconsolate
- unhappy
- genteel
- polite
- Sanctify
- to set apart to a sacred purpose or to religious use
- ague
- illness involving fever and shivering (malaria)
- assent
- expression of approval
- purblind
- having impaired vision
- Dejected
- cast down in spirits
- Discernible
- to recognize or identify as separate and distinct
- larceny
- theft of personal property
- burly
- strongly and heavily built
- Capricious
- governed or characterized by caprice (a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- supercilious
- coolly and patronizingly haughty
- Impair
- to damage or make worse by or as if by diminishing in some material respect
- Countenance
- calm expression
- Attest
- to affirm to be true or genuine; specifically : to authenticate by signing as a witness
- penitence
- feeling sorrow and regret for having done wrong
- oblige
- make legally bound to an action
- excommunicate
- official exclude someone from participation in the Christian Church
- stipulate
- demand as part of an agreement
- Unscrupulous
- not scrupulous
- asunder
- divided
- Corroborate
- to support with evidence or authority : make more certain
- dismal
- depressing
- Benefactor
- one that confers a benefit; especially : one that makes a gift or bequest
- rimy
- covered with frost