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English vocab words
Vocab for " The Necklace"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dowry | a gift or endownment, sometimes given to a husband by the wife's family |
| Antechambers | a waiting room |
| Bric-a-brac | small random collector's teams |
| Tureen | a large, deep dish used for serving stews and soups |
| Personages | any person, sometimes a person of distinction |
| Gallantries | heroic, courageous acts |
| Frocks | a loose fitting outer clothing |
| Convent | a home/ community of moncks, nuns, or friars |
| Chagrin | a mixture of irritation, disappointment |
| Nanterre | a city in Nothern France, a Surbur of Paris |
| Immoderate | excessive, extreme |
| Homage | respect or reverence given to someone |
| Nocturnal | active at night |
| Coupes | a successful, unexexpected act/ move |
| Vestibule | a passage or hall bettween the outadoors and interior rooms |
| Harrowed | greatly disturbed or distreed |
| Chaplet | a string of beads |
| Users | people who lend money with intrest |
| Privations | lacis of confront, missing necessites of life |
| Frigid | very cold, insentitive |
| Mansard | describing a roof with a steep bottom part and a shallow upper part |
| Chemises | a women's loose fitting shirt like clothing |