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vocab fm silas marn
vocab from silas marner
Question | Answer |
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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 |