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vocab chaps prologue - 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sardonic | scornfully or cynically mocking |
| innocuos | having no adverse effect; harmless |
| sentient | having sense and perceptions; alive;conscious |
| aggrieve | to distress; afflict |
| wraith | the ghost of a dead person |
| querolous | given to complaining |
| loutish | uncouth in manners or appearence |
| arch | mischivious |
| suffused | to spread over or through |
| counterpane | embroidered quilt bedspread |
| sedentary | accustumed to sitting or taking little exercise |
| imprudence | unwise or indiscrete |
| convivial | fond of good company and good times |
| volubility | characterized by ready or rapid speech |
| opulence | wealth, affluence, abundance |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied |
| spectral | ghostly |
| derision | contemptuous jeering or laughing ridicule |
| loth | unwilling or reluctant |
| stolid | revealing little emotion or sensibility |
| contended | struggled |
| inexorable | incapable of being persuaded |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of aversion or repugnance |
| valise | a small piece of luggage |
| repining | to be discontented or in low spirits; complain or fret |