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TOTC Book 1 Vocab
A Tale of Two Cities Book 1 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| besmirched | stained; sullied |
| blunderbuss | an old-fashioned gun |
| cadaverous | like a dead body |
| capitulate | to stop resisting |
| contraband | forbidden |
| discompose | to disturb |
| doleful | sorrowful |
| eddying | swirling |
| emaciated | abnormally thin |
| epoch | an era |
| expeditiously | promptly and efficiently |
| expostulation | an objection |
| feign | to pretend |
| genial | cheerful; friendly |
| inscrutable | hard to understand |
| insensible | emotionally unresponsive |
| mutinous | rebellious |
| myriad | a great number |
| nondescript | having no distinctive qualities |
| postilion | a driver of a horse-drawn carriage |
| provender | the provisions |
| requisition | demand |
| retinue | the followers |
| rustic | rura |
| sagacity | wisdom |
| substratum | a supporting layer |
| turnkey | a jailer |
| unfathomable | impossible to see the bottom |