Chapter 10-35 vocab (Great Expectations)
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- nevvy
- dialect for nephew
- epergne
- an ornamental dish with several compartments used as a centerpiece for a dining table.
- sal volatile
- an aromatic mixture used as smelling salts
- depreciatory
- maent to belittle
- unremunerative
- unrewarding
- indentures
- contracts binding people to work for another for a specific period of time
- ostentasiously
- in a showy manner
- mollified
- made less severe or violent; softened
- rantipole
- a rude boisterous boy
- bound out of hand
- made an apprentice immediantly
- melancholy
- sad and gloomy
- inscrutably
- mysteriously
- excrescence
- an abnormal outgrowth
- cain
- adam and eve eldest son who killed his brother abel
- wandering jew
- a character in medieval folklore condemnedto wander the earth restlessly because of his scorful attitude at christs crucifixion
- George barnwell
- the title character of a popular play in which an apprentice robs his employer and murders his uncle
- vexation
- an annoyance
- disconcerted
- frusterated; or upset
- timon of athens
- he title character of play by shakespeare; coriolanus arrogance cuases him to banished from rome
- subterfuge
- a strategem used to hide ones true objective or to evade an unpleasant sitiution ; diception
- obtruded
- forced upon (someone) unwillingly
- pervading
- spreading throughout
- the rich man and the kingdom of heaven
- an allusion to mathew 19:24: ''it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needdle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god''
- condescension
- the act of dealing withb others in a proud or haughty way
- miscreant
- an evil prson or criminal
- hackney- coachman
- the drive of a horsedrawn coach for hire
- hammercloth
- cloth covering the drivers box in a coach
- equipage
- a carrige used on formal occasions with horses driver and liverred servants
- portmanteau
- a stiff leather suitcase that opens into two carpetments
- magnanimous
- generous in overlooking an injury or insult
- handel
- george frederick (168-1759) german born english composer