Vocab- Tale of Two Cities
Terms
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- Profligate
- A depraved man
- Supplication
- Humble begging
- Vociferating
- Crying out loudly
- Apostrophising
- Addressing the absent or dead as if present
- Vinous
- Showing effects of using wine
- Superciliously
- Overbearingly, haughty
- Assiduously
- Constantly, diligently
- Anatomise
- Dissect, Analyze
- Aprocyphal
- Of doubtful authenticity
- Abate
- to lessen
- Tremulously
- Trembling, shaking
- Oblivion
- State of being forgotten
- Lenient
- indulgent, a mild disposition towards
- Florid
- Highly decorated
- Assented
- Agreed
- Execrations
- Curses
- Modicum
- A small quantity
- Portentously
- Ominous, foreshadowing something bad
- Attenuated
- Diminished; made thin or slender
- Contagion
- Infection; diseased by contact
- Conflagration
- A great fire
- Approbation
- Approval; liking
- Disparaging
- dishonorable; inferior
- Equipages
- Equipment
- Capricious
- Whimsical
- Emigrant
- one who moved residence from one country to another
- Sequestrated
- Taking custody of a defendant's property
- Acquiescene
- Compliance
- Dubiously
- Uncertain; doubtful
- inviolate
- Uninjured; unbroken
- Avocations
- Occupations
- Redundancy
- using or having more than necessary
- Purveyors
- Those who supply provisions
- Remonstrated
- Presented strong reasons against something
- Culpability
- guilt; sinfulness; responsibilty
- Dissonance
- Discord; disagreement in sound
- Prevaricate
- To act or speak evasively
- Proscribed
- Outlawed; condemned as dangerous
- Imperious
- haughty; arrogant; domineering
- Prodigous
- Extraordinary; huge
- Antipathy
- Dislike; opposition
- Gesticulation
- to make motions while talking
- epicure
- devoted to sensual enjoyments
- Alacrity
- liveliness; cheerful readiness
- Inveterate
- long-established; deep-rooted
- Accoutred
- furnished with military dress & arms
- Rapacious
- Subsisting on prey; plundering
- Expiation
- Atonement; reparation