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Jubilee
Glossary
Question | Answer |
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admonition | cautionary advice or warning |
amble | to walk slowly or leisurely; stroll |
bondage | the state of one who is bound in slavery |
chargrin | a keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event |
cloying | causing distaste or disgust |
countenance | to give approval to |
demurely | modestly; shyly |
docile | yielding to supervision or management; obedient |
exult | to rejoice greatly |
fetid | having an offensive odor |
impudent | characterized by offensive boldness; insolent or impertinent. |
insurrection | rebellion |
patronizing | condescending; dealing with in a superior manner. |
peevish | ill tempered |
petulant | unreasonably irritable; peevish |
pious | professing or exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality; high-minded |
proscribed | prohibited; forbidden |
redress | satisfaction for wrong or injury; reparation |
servile | of or relating to servitude or forced labor |
taciturn | habitually untalkative; silent |
tribulation | great affliction, trial, or distress; suffering |
wizened | withered |