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Jane Eyre Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Visage | aspect or apperance |
| ignominy | disgrace,dishonor, public humiliation |
| perogatives | exclusive right or privilege exercised by virtue/rank of office/etc |
| meagre | lacking richness or fullness; scanty |
| execrations | curse or imprecation |
| anitpathy | natural, basic,habitual repugnance; aversion |
| fain | gladly,willingly |
| pensive | dreamily or wistfully thoughtful;usually marked by some sadness |
| impalpable | intangible |
| solace | comfort ins sorrow/misfortune/trouble |
| perfidious | deliberately faithless/treacherous; decietful |
| oeb | sphere or globe;eye |
| edification | moral improvement or guidance |
| imputation | attribution as of fault or guidance |
| ameliorated | to make/become better;improve |
| imbibed | drink,absorb or soak up |
| incumbent | holding an indicated position/role/office;obligatory |
| rainment | clothing,apparel,attire |
| assiduous | constant, unremitting |
| affability | friend;y, cordial,benign pleasant |
| piqued | to arouse an emotion or provoke an action |
| pallitate | to relieve or lessen without curing; alleviate |
| abridge | to shorten/omit content, reduce/lessen duration/scope/authority |
| paroxysm | any sudden violent outburst;a fit of violent action or emotion |
| ewer | pitcher with a wide spout |
| confabulation | conversation,discussion |
| exonerated | free from guilt or blame |
| contumacy | stubborn perverseness or rebelliousness |
| ensconced | to settle securely/snugly, to cover or shelter |
| caprice | sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind/weather |
| contumellious | humiliating insult |
| epithet | word/phrase/expression used to characterize a person/thing or as a term of abuse |
| acrimony | sharpness,harshness,bitterness of nature/speech/disposition |
| sardonic | bitter/scornful derision; mocking;cynical;sneering |
| enigmas | puzzling/inexplicable occurrence/situation/contradictory character |
| bliss | supreme happiness |
| eyrie | brood of bird of prey; any high isolated place or position |
| incarnate | embodied in flesh; in human form |
| sequestered | seclude |
| presentments | foreboding |
| iteration | repeat |
| purloined | steal |
| ascetic | rigidly abstinent |
| covert | secret,veiled |
| ruth | pity |
| indolence | lazy |
| acumen | sharpness of wit |
| allege | bring forward as an arguement |
| effaced | wipe/rub out |
| awry | crookedly\perversely\wrong |
| vale | valley |
| accesion | coming into possession of title/right/office |
| despotism | opressor |
| audacity | bold,daring |
| malignant | feeling extreme ill will |
| impediment | hinder |
| averred | declare trust, assert |
| impetus | impulse |
| avraciuos | greediness of wealth |
| eschewed | avoid,abstain from |
| arbitress | judge, umpire |
| fagging | weary,toil |
| lexicon | dictionary |
| torpid | sluggish,dormant |
| satiety | feeling of having too much |
| patrimony | inheritance of father's/ancestor's estate |
| scions | descendant,shooting/twig especially for grafting/planting |
| deferentiable | capable of being differentiated |
| ignoble | not noble, low character |
| superfluous | excessive |
| analogous | having analogy |
| acrued | to happen or result as a natural growth |
| competency | competence |
| slothful | sluggard,indolent,lazy |
| malady | undesirable/disordered condition |
| curate | member of clergy employed to assist a rector/vicar |
| evade | to avoid |
| insalubrious | unfavorable to health; unwholesome |
| cicatrised | to heal/become healed of a scar |
| doleful | sorrowful, mournful; melancholy |
| impetousity | being rash in action suddenly/moving with great force |
| inexplicable | incapable of being accounted for or expalined |
| eminent | conspicuous, prominent |
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