1-5 Great Expectations Vocab
Terms
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- Inscription
- letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something
- lair
- the habitation of wild animals
- ravenously
- hungrily: in the manner of someone who is very hungry; "he pounced on the food hungrily"
- elude
- escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
- gibbet
- hang on an execution instrument
- impregnable
- able to withstand attack
- connubial
- of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband;
- missile
- a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control
- larceny
- Obtaining property by fraud or deceit.
- augment
- enlarge or increase
- interlocutor
- the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
- obstinatley
- stubbornly, in a stubborn unregenerate manner
- riveted
- the technique of joining components prodigiously
- partial
- being or affecting only a part, not total
- vicariously
- indierctly, as, by or though a substitute
- compassionate
- howing merciful compassion
- assail
- attack in speech or writing
- tersely
- telegraphically; in a short and concise manner
- prodigal
- marked by rash extravagance
- contumaciously
- in a rebellious manner
- omnipotent
- power with no limits or inexhaustible
- imperious
- able to deal authoirtatively with affairs
- terminate
- end, to bring to a halt
- apparition
- a grostly appearing figure
- apprehension
- fearful expectation or anticipation
- joviality
- feeling jolly and full of good humor
- arid
- lacking sufficient water or rainfall
- disperse
- to scatter, distribute losely
- dispel
- chase away, force to go away
- livid
- furiously angry
- diverge
- move or draw apart
- execrate
- curse or declare to be evil