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Wutherhing Heights
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Countenance | someone’s face, or the expression on it |
| Misanthropist | someone who hates humanity, or dislikes or distrusts other people and tends to avoid them |
| Desolation | bare, uninhabited, and deserted |
| Surly | bad tempered, unfriendly, rude, somewhat threatening |
| Tumult | a violent or noisy commotion; a psychological or emotional upheaval or agitation |
| Provincial | unsophisticated and unwilling to accept new ideas or ways of thinking |
| Repose | a condition of peacefulness and tranquility |
| Morose | having a withdrawn, gloomy personality |
| Impertinence | insolence; unmannerly intrusion or presumption |
| Tacit | understood or implied without being stated openly |
| Vexatious | provoking irritation or anxiety by causing trouble |
| Laconic | using very few words |
| Churlish | characteristic of someone with bad manners |
| Vehemently | expressed with or showing conviction or intense feeling |
| Deign | to do something in a way that shows that it is considered a great favor |
| Obscure | difficult to understand because of not being fully clearly expressed; not able to be seen or heard distinctly |
| Amiable | friendly and pleasant to be with |
| Evince | to show a feeling or a quality clearly |
| Miser | someone who hates spending money and lives as though he or she were poor |
| Sagacity | profound knowledge and understanding, coupled with foresight and good judgment |
| Haughty | behaving in a superior, condescending, or arrogant way |
| Assiduity | great care and attention in doing something else |
| Austere | grimly unsmiling, humorless, or suggesting strict self |
| Disparity | a lack of equality between people or things |
| Diabolical | connected with the devil or devil worship; evil |
| Surmise | to conclude that something is the case on the basis of only limited evidence or intuitive feeling |
| Eloquence | the ability to speak forcefully, expressively, and persuasively |
| Malignity | intense hatred and a strong desire to harm |
| Virulency | the quality of being bitter, malicious, or hostile; the quality of being extremely poisonous , infectious, or damaging |
| Condole | to express sympathy to someone who is experiencing grief, loss, or pain, especially over a death |
| Obviate | to anticipate and then to avoid something |
| Vapid | lacking interest or liveliness; lacking strength, taste, or flavor |
| Tome | a book, especially a large, heavy book on a serious subject |
| Caricature | a drawing, description, or performance that exaggerates someone’s or something’s characteristics for a humorous effect |
| Lachrymose | crying or tending to cry easily and often |
| Flounder | to act in a way that shows confusion or a lack of purpose |
| Reproach | to address someone in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment |
| Transgression | the committing of acts that violate a law, command, or moral code |
| Visage | someone’s face or facial expression |
| Martyr | someone who chooses to die rather than deny a strongly held belief, especially a religious belief |
| Ascribe | to believe or say that something was caused by a particular thing |
| Discern | to see or notice something that is not very clear or obvious |
| Obscurely | in a way that is not clear, definite, or easy to understand |
| Doleful | sad and mournful |
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hschatz1222
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