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vocab on The Count of Monte Cristo

QuestionAnswer
Obsequies eager to please
Promontory cliff
Supplicated to ask humbly
Usurper one who seizes and holds power without authority
Gendarmes French police
Parry to block/deflect
Lucidity fairness/saneness
Sublime grand or honor
Celibacy not engaging in sex
Gesticulation expressive gestures
Cupidity greedy
Expiate to make amends for
Inertia indisposition to motion, exertion, or change
Cochineal red dye made from insects
Complicity being an accomplice
Imperious demanding
Nettled irritated
Caprice change in mind for no apparent reason
Expeditious quick and efficient
Prosaic commonplace or ordinary
Formidable causing fear
Prodigal extravagant or lavish
Cosmopolite citizen of the world
Aviary large cage where birds are kept
Efficacious producing a desired effect
Antipathy feeling of strong dislike
Presage to give a sign of warning
Sinister evil
Implacable unchanging
Insolent offensively rude
Emetic medicine that induces vomiting
Sententiously obsessive moralizing
Indomitable unconquerable
Approbation approval
Enmity hostility
Filial relating to a son or daughter
Piety religious devoutness
Panacea cure all
Timorous timid
Benevolence generosity
Apparition ghost
Toper sluggishness
Mercenary soldier hired for money
Solicitude care or concern
Tutelary having the position of guardianship
Ingrate ungrateful
Machination elaborate plot
Bravado boldness
Presentiment feeling that something is about to happen
Mitigation to make milder
Recriminate return accusation
Paroxysm sudden outburst of emotion
Phlegmatically without emotion
Histrionics theatrical behavior
Reparation to repay
Created by: baileylover108
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