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vocab fm silas marn
vocab from silas marner
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| warding | the state of being guarded/ a body of guards/ the state of being watched/ a inner most room to be placed under watch |
| victual | food usable by people/ supplies |
| vicinage (vin-i-nage) | the neighboring or surrounding district |
| vexation (vex-a-tion) | the state of being harassed or vexed (your following me around with the vexations that I wished to avoid) |
| vestry (ves-try) | sacristy/ a room used for church purposes |
| veracity (ve-rac-i-ty) | devotion to the truth/ power of conveying or perceiving the truth/ conformity with the truth or fact/ something true <makes lies sound like veracity> |
| venerable (ven-er-a-ble) | "deserving to be venerated" used as a title for the lowest 3 degrees in the Anglican and Roman Cath church/ made sacred by religious or historical association/ calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| unwonted (un-wonted-ed) | out of the ordinary/ not accustomed by experience |
| unctuous (unc-tu-ous) | fatty and oily/ smooth and greasy in texture/ plastic/ full of unction- revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality <adverb: unctuously. noun: unctousness> |
| tankard (tan-kard) | a one-handed drinking vessel, esp. if it is a pewter or silver mug with a lid |
| superlative | denoting a degree of unsurpassed grammar in comparison/ surpassing all others/ extremelh high qaulity/ excessive |
| superfluous (su-per-flu-ous) | exceeding what is necessary/ not needed/ obsolete- marked by wastefulenss |
| succession (suc-ces-sion) | the order in which one thing or title passes to another |
| stile | <also called turnstile> a set of stepss leading over a wall or fence/ one of the vertical members in a frame in which the secondary member is fitted |
| ruminate (ru-mi-nate) | to go over in the mind often causally or repeatedly/ to coonstantly chew something over a period or time even when it has been partically swallowed |
| rollick- intransitive verb; rollicking is an adjective | to move or behave in a joyous, boisterously carefree manner |
| rickets (rick-ets) noun pural but singlualr in construction | a vitamin D deficiceney disease that affects the young during skeletal growth |
| requisition (req-ui-si-tion) | a formal request to ask someone to do something/ formal request between nations to release a prisoner/ something to be furnished/ to formally demand/ the state of being in demand or use |
| queer | worthless, conterfiet/ questionable, suspicous/ differing from the usual |
| provident (prov-i-dent) | making provisions for the future/ frugal |
| prosaic (pro-sa-ic) | having characteristics more like prose than poetry/ dull, unimaginative/ everyday and ordinary |
| profusion (pro-fu-sion) | lavish expenditure/ the state of being profuse/ great quantity |
| prevaricate (pre-var-i-cate) | diverging from the truth |
| presentiment (pre-sen-ti-ment) -noun | a feeling that something is about to happen |
| pliant (pli-ant) | pliable/ easily influenced/ suitable for various uses |
| pillion | a light saddle for women consisting chiefly of a cusion/ British word:a motorcycle or bicycle saddle for a passenger |
| phantasm (phan-tasm) also known as fantasm | a product of fantasy/ delusive appearance/ a figment of the imagination/ a mental representation of a real object <adjective: phantasmal or phantasmic> |
| laudanum (lau-da-num) | any various formerly used preparations of opium/ a tincture of opium |
| judicious (ju-di-cious) adj | having, exercising, or characterized by good judgement |
| jocose (jo-cose) | given to joking/ characterized by joking <adverb: jocosely. noun: jocoseness. noun: jocosity> |
| inanity | the quality or state of being inane, silly or stupid/ vapid, pointless, or fatuous character: shallowness |
| inane | silly or stupid |
| vapid (va-pid) | offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging |
| ingratiating (in-gra-ti-at-ing) | intended to gain favor or support; sycophantic |
| sycophantic (syc-o-phan-tic) | behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage |
| obsequious (ob-se-qui-ous) | obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree |