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Wuthering Heights 2

QuestionAnswer
Winsome charming
Injudicious showing poor judgment
Munificent very generous
Dilatory slow in doing things
Averred declared (something) to be true
Fastidiousness tendency to be refined in a too dainty or oversensitive way
Presentiment feeling that something unfortunate is about to occur; foreboding
Covetousness greediness
Abjured gave up; renounced
Furze prickly evergreen shrub
Avarice greed for riches
Malevolence ill will; spitefulness; malice
Mitigating making milder; moderating
Mawkish sentimental in a weak, insipid way
Propitiate win or regain the good will of; appease
Impudence shameful boldness
Approbation approval
Intractable hard to manage; unruly; stubborn
Ignominious humiliating; degrading
Derision contempt; ridicule
Stoical calm and unflinching under suffering
Compunction sharp feeling of uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt; remorse
Peremptorily in an intolerantly dictatorial manner
Sanguine confident; optimistic
Obviate do away with; prevent
Importuned urged repeatedly
Alacrity eager willingness
Abject miserable; wretched
Innuendos indirect remarks, usually of a derogatory kind; insinuations
Incipient just beginning
Trepidation anxiety; fearful uncertainty
Accede agree; give in
Salubrious healthful
Diurnal daily
credulity tendency to believe too readily; lack of doubt
Lethargy great lack of energy; sluggishness
Enigmatically baffling; perplexing
Attenuated thin and weak
Supplications requests
Adroitly expertly; cleverly
To appropriate to take for one's own use, especially without permission
Conflagration large, destructive fire
Saturnine gloomy, indolence
Automatons persons acting automatically as if they were machines
Obdurate hardhearted; stubborn
Paragon model of excellence
Sidled moved sideways
Admonition warning to correct a fault; reprimand
Protracted prolonged
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