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Vocab. on Thursday
Vocab. on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| outstanding | eminently |
| strict, stern | austere |
| rebuke, scold | reprove |
| gloom, depressing | sombre |
| hateful, nasty | detestable |
| a person under the support of a patron | protege |
| confusion,puzzlement | perplexity |
| to place trust in | repose |
| overlooked; forgiven | condoned |
| wickedness, injustice | iniquity |
| not noticeable | unobtrusive |
| unable to express one's thoughts clearly | incoherence |
| spoke to first | accosted |
| without feeling | insensate |
| a great fire | conflagration |
| hateful | odious |
| dug up | disinterred |
| lean and angular | gaunt |
| pondered, reflected on over and over | ruminated |
| diligently | sedulously |
| behavior, bearing | mien |
| sad | disconsolate |
| wretched, lacking pride | abject |
| disaster | calamity |
| grieving, expressing sorrow | lamentation |
| excessive | exorbitant |
| evaporating rapidly | volatile |
| beginning; in an early stage | incipient |
| close examination | scrutiny |
| puzzles | enigmas |
| supplied with quality | endowed |
| domineering, arrogant | imperious |
| deep rooted, habitually | inveterateley |
| continually, recurring | perennial |
| varied,greatly diversified | multifarious |
| absurd, incompatable | incongruous |
| power to produce the desired affect | efficacy |
| firm dislike | aversions |
| relating to money | pecuniary |
| large | capacious |
| face, facial expression | countenence |
| talk, conversation | discourse |
| manner, behavior | demeanour |
| qualification, expertise | aptness |
| eagerly trying to equal or surpass another | emulously |
| flirtation | coquetry |
| lengthy, drawn out | prolonged |
| filthly, squalid | sordid |
| an overwhelmingly, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path | juggernaut |
| one who prepares and sells drugs and other medicines, a pharmicist | apothecary |
| of doubtful authenticity | apocryphal |
| resentment, sulkiness | sullenness |
| a narrow focus on the trivial aspects of learning | pedantically |
| an appetite | relish |
| a document written wholly in the handwriting of the person whose signiture it bears | holograph |
| nonsense | balderdash |
| Damon was a myhtological figure who out of devotion pledged his life as a guarantee that his condemned friend Pythias would return to face execution Both were subsequentially pardoned | Damon and Pyhtias |
| the disposition to prefer, or favor one thing rathor than the other | inclination |
| having to do with cave men, and anthropoid ape such as a gorilla or chimp | troglodytic |
| a law setting a time limit on legal actions | statute of limitations |
| two weeks; fourteen days | fortnight |
| long time close friends | cronies |
| one who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules | pedant |
| controversial or unusual opinions | heresies |
| difficult or impossible to control or restrain | irrepressible |
| shrunk back in fear | quailed |
| a covering | pall |
| untidy, dirty | slatternly |
| deep red garnets; precious red stones | carbuncles |
| odd, in an old fashioned way | quaint |
| arousing sympathy or compassion | pathetically |
| general meaning | drift |
| forbidding something | prohibition |
| strict, binding | stringent |
| to discipline by self denial | mortify |
| in an ill-tempered way | peevishly |
| persuade | induce |
| courageous, not discouraged | undaunted |
| wrongdoer, lawbreaker | malefactor |
| moderate, slowed down | bated |
| vial, a small container for liquids | phial |
| preoccupied with unwholesome thoughts or feelings | morbid |
| an assortment or mixture | farrago |
| held back, confined | constrained |
| delicacy, fragility | debility |
| health | constitution |
| depravity, evil | turpitude |
| passing, not lasting long | transience |
| seething, bubbling | ebullition |
| dishonest, deceietful | unscrupulous |
| felt as if one were taking part in the experience of another | vicarious |
| moral corruptness | depravity |
| spreading in a harmful manner | insidiously |
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