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ATOTC Vocab
Book II: 1-22 Test on Wednesday. Ew-uh!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| incommodious | cramped |
| counterpane | bedspread, quilt |
| deprecated | disapproved of |
| laudanum | a drug containing opium |
| cogitated | thought deeply |
| proviso | hypothesis, conditional stipulation |
| circuitously | in a roundabout way |
| immolate | sacrifice |
| repast | meal |
| gainsay | deny |
| disinherit | exclude from inheritance |
| confer | to discuss |
| glib | fluent, showing preparation |
| trepidation | fear, dread |
| emulative | admiring, imitating |
| valet | servant |
| cowed | faithful |
| propitiate | beg for favor |
| obsequiousness | servility |
| imperturbable | unflappable (not easily excited) |
| homage | respect |
| diabolic | devilish, evil |
| constant | (adj) certain, unchanging, steadfast, resolute |
| enterprise | (n.) an important or difficult project |
| petition | (n) a respectful or humple respect |
| redress | (v.) to remedy or correct |
| censure | (v.) to judge or blame harshly |
| entreat | (v.) to implore or beg |
| extenuate | (v.) to underestimate, or underrate to make a fault seem less serious |
| grievous | adj. cuasing grief; outlandish, atrocious, causing great physical suffering |
| legacy | (n.) gift of property; something of value transferred from one generatoin to another |
| testament | (n) a will or formal promise |
| suit | n. old word meaning "petition" |
| legacy | (n.) gift of property; something of value transferred from one generatoin to another |
| testament | (n) a will or formal promise |
| suit | n. old word meaning "petition" |
| spurn | v. old word to kick disdainfullly |
| confounded | adj. confused |
| mutiny | n. open rebellion against authority |
| malice | desire to harm or see harm done to others |
| oration | n. formal speech |
| discourse | v. speak formally and at length |
| vile | adj. depraved (to make bad) |
| prick | n. a mark made by pricking, a dot, a point. V. to mark by pricking, urge forward |
| provender | n. dry food for livestock |
| levy | n. rasing or collecting an army or by authority or foce V> to collect or impose a tax |
| instance | n. a presence, a cause, a mark |
| mettle | N. characteristic disposition or temperament |
| chastisement | N. the act of discipling or restraining behavior, punishment |
| fret | v. to feel or express annoyance, concern, or worry |
| slight | v. to treat with little importance |
| testy | adj. irritably impatient, touchy |
| vex | v. to irritate, annoy or provoke |
| slanderous | adj, damaging to a persons reputation |
| covert | adj. secret |
| chastisement | n. punishment, severe criticism |
| philosophy | n. system of principles or beliefs |
| harp | v. to give voice or uterance to |
| potent | adj. powerful, influential |
| impress | v. conscript, draft, force into military or other service |
| pernicious | adj. harmful, destructive, lethal |
| firstling | n. the first of a kind, first-born offspring |
| school | v. to inform teach train |
| desolate | adj. isolated, lonely |
| intemperance | n. excessive indulgence of a natural appetite or passion; lack of maderation |
| avarice | n. insatiable greed for riches; inordinate desire to gain or hoard wealth |
| scruples | n. tiny parts, doubt, difficulty |
| pertubation | n. a mental agitation |
| charge | v. to suffuse with emotion |
| mortify | adj dead to the world, deadened, destroyed |
| gentry | rank according to birth, nobility, nobles |
| distempered | adj, disordered, deranged, distrubed |
| upbraid | v. to bring forward as grounds or basis for censure |
| skirr | v. to fly, whir, scour |
| raze | v. to obliterate, destroy completely |
| prestine | adj. having original purity, uncontaminated |
| treatise | n. tale, talk |
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