Benito Cereno
GFS English 12 Benito Cereno
Mcgeary class
Mcgeary class
Terms
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- filial
- relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring
- admonitory
- expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
- scullion
- a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing)
- bier
- a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial
- incipient
- only partly in existence
- elucidate
- make free from confusion or ambiguity
- obtrude
- thrust oneself in as if by force
- battledore
- a light long-handled racket used by badminton players
- impute
- attribute or credit to
- febrile
- of or relating to or characterized by fever
- appurtenance
- necessary equipment
- calamitous
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
- superannuate
- retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity
- guilelessness
- innocence, naivete
- prostrate
- render helpless or defenseless
- hidalgo
- a man of the lower nobility in Spain.
- caprice
- a sudden desire
- mulish
- unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
- deprecatory
- tending to diminish or disparage
- ursine
- of or relating to or similar to bears
- repast
- the food served and eaten at one time
- wimple
- headdress of cloth
- voluminous
- large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)
- splenetic
- very irritable
- gibbet
- instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging
- remuneration
- Payment for work done
- obtuse
- slow to learn or understand
- allay
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- ague
- successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
- punctilio
- strict observance of formalities
- vehement
- marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
- remonstrances
- the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
- evince
- give expression to
- dolorous
- showing sorrow
- tractable
- readily reacting to suggestions and influences
- tableau
- a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
- harangued
- a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe
- torpor
- a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility
- cadaverous
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- saturnine
- bitter or scornful
- deposition
- the giving of testimony under oath
- cowl
- a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk)
- pecuniary
- relating to or involving money
- scourge
- a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
- distempered
- An illness or disease; an ailment
- indecorous
- lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
- debility
- the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
- gunwale
- wale at the top of the side of boat
- diffident
- lacking self-confidence
- peevish
- easily irritated or annoyed