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ATOTC vocab book two
Vocabulary words for book two of A Tale of Two Cities
Term | Definition |
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Purloin | To steal |
Dogged | Stubbornly unyielding, obstinate |
Insolent | Insulting, laid back |
Lucrative | Profitable, money making |
Disinterestedly | Freedom from bias, self-interest, without personal gain |
Incorrigible | Incapable of being corrected or reformed |
Magnanimous | Generous and forgiving |
Venerable | Worthy of respect |
Irresolute | Indecisive |
Ubiquitous | Being or seeming to be everywhere at once |
Recompose | Payment in return for something given, spoken in money terms |
Bacchanalian | A drunken or riotous party, indulged in drinking and partying |
Superciliously | Haughty, disdainful, arrogant, stuck-up |
Sinister | Suggesting evil |
Fortnight | Two weeks |
Feigned | Pretended |
Miscreant | One who believes criminally or badly |
Pensive | Deep in thought-often melancholy |
Beatified | Blessed |
Redress | Pay back for a wrong |