Wuthering Heights Chapters 4,5,6 vocabulary
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- vain
- devoid of real value,worth, or significance
- impracticable
- that which cannot be put to use or practically dealt with; that which cannot be carried out
- wretch
- One who is sunk in deep distress, sorrow, misfortune, or poverty
- sincerely
- In good faith; Without dissimulation or pretence; honestly, straightforwardly
- rouse
- To cause to start up from slumber or repose; to awaken from sleep, meditation, etc.
- ensue
- to follow
- countenance
- Bearing, demeanour, comportment; behaviour, conduct; sometimes spec. behaviour of two persons towards each other
- surly
- Masterful, imperious; haughty, arrogant, supercilious
- indiginae
- A native, aborigina
- flit
- to transfer from one position to another; to remove (a person) from his house or habitation
- borne
- Carried, sustained, endured, etc
- churl
- Used as a term of disparagement or contempt;spec. One who is sordid, ‘hard’, or stingy in money-matters; a niggard; a miser
- unfledged
- Of persons: Immature, inexperienced, undeveloped in knowledge, etc.
- dunnock
- The hedge-sparrow or hedge-warbler
- gruel
- A light, liquid food (chiefly used as an article of diet for invalids) made by boiling oatmeal (or occas. some other farinaceous subtance) in water or milk, sometimes with the addition of other ingredients, as butter, sugar, spices, onions, etc.
- bonny
- Pleasing to the sight, comely, beautiful, expressing homely beauty.
- grumble
- to utter murmurs of discontent
- blubber
- To utter or cry out with copious tears and sobs.
- recompense
- To make compensation or atonement for (a misdeed, wrong, etc.).
- cowardice
- hostile sentiments of others
- perpetual
- Lasting or destined to last for ever, eternal
- surname
- A name, title, or epithet added to a person's name or names, esp. one derived from his birthplace or from some quality or achievement.
- plague
- to torment or harass
- sullen
- solemn or serious; Characterized by, or indicative of, gloomy ill-humour or moody silence.
- persecuting
- action of harassing, or oppressing a person or group
- wayward
- Disposed to go counter to the wishes or advice of others, or to what is reasonable; wrongheaded, intractable, self-willed; froward, perverse. Of children: Disobedient, refractory.
- oppressor
- one who persecutes or harasses with unjust or cruel treatment
- usurper
- one who seizes or arrogates supreme power or authority without right or just cause
- brooding
- A cherishing in the mind; moody mental contemplation
- compelled
- Constrained, forced, necessitated
- affirmed
- Maintained, positively asserted, declared; corroborated or confirmed
- dote
- To be infatuatedly fond of; to bestow excessive love or fondness on or upo
- indulgence
- a licence, favour, or privilege granted.
- insolent
- Proud, disdainful, haughty, arrogant, overbearing; offensively contemptuous of the rights or feelings of others.
- insensible
- A thing or person incapable of feeling; an inanimate thing; an apathetic person.
- obligated
- Bound by law, duty, or any moral tie, esp. one of gratitude; under obligation, beholden, indebted.
- boasted
- Vaunted, bragged of.
- stagger
- To sway involuntarily from side to side when trying to stand or walk erect; to totter or reel as if about to fall
- intimate
- To make known formally, to notify, announce, state;
- interloper
- An unauthorized trader; one who trespasses on the rights or privileges of any trade monopoly (see quot. 1896); {dag}a ship engaged in unauthorized trading (obs.).
- wheedle
- To entice or persuade by soft flattering words; to gain over or take in by coaxing or cajolery.
- imp
- A ‘child’ of the devil, or of hell.
- qualm
- General or widespread mortality of men or animals; plague, pestilence; loss or damage
- vindictive
- Given to revenge; having a revengeful disposition.
- impose
- to inflict on or upon
- domineer
- To rule or govern arbitrarily or despotically; to act imperiously; to tyrannize
- amiss
- Faultily, defectively; in a way that falls short of its object, or with which fault may be found
- manifestations
- The action of making manifest; {dag}exposition, explanation (obs.); the fact of being manifested; the demonstration, revelation, or display of the existence, presence, qualities, or nature of some person or thing.
- curate
- ne entrusted with the cure of souls; a spiritual pastor. {dag}a. gen. Any ecclesiastic (including a bishop, etc.) who has the spiritual charge of a body of laymen.
- self-righteous
- virtuous in one's own esteem
- ransacked
- Searched into, explored, plundered, etc.
- sermonizing
- preaching; delivery of a speech or sermon
- discoursing
- talking, conversation; discussion.
- contrived
- Ingeniously or artfully devised or planned.
- reprobate
- An abandoned or unprincipled person; one whose character is utterly bad; a scamp.
- earnest
- Seriousness, serious intention, as opposed to jest or play
- chided
- To give loud or impassioned utterance to anger, displeasure, disapprobation, reproof. {dag}a. To contend with loud and angry altercation; to brawl, wrangle.
- grave
- Weighty, important; in later use chiefly, requiring serious thought, serious.
- peevish
- Silly, senseless, foolish
- reproof
- Insulting or opprobrious language or action used against a person; insult, contumely, scorn