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Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities Books I and 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| requisition | need |
| capitulated | gave in’ yielded |
| cessation | stopping |
| expeditiously | quickly |
| gradations | steps, degrees |
| triumvirate | group of three |
| doleful | melancholy |
| provender | provisions; food |
| sagacity | wisdom |
| incommodious | cramped |
| counterpane | bedspread |
| 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 |
| emulative | admiring, imitating |
| valet | vassal, servant |
| cowed | fearful |
| propitiate | beg for favor |
| obsequiousness | servility |
| imperturbable | unflappable |
| homage | respect, obedience |
| diabolic | devilish, evil |
| portend | signify for the future |
| incorrigible | incapable of reform |
| magnanimous – generous | |
| transitory | existing for only a short time |
| profligates | recklessly dissolute people |
| interment | burial |
| ruminated | thought deeply |
| vinous | pertaining to wine |
| league | measure of distance about 3 miles |
| olfactory | pertaining to smell |
| coquetry | pretended affection |
| interpose | come between |
| diffidence | lack of confidence |
| nice | subtle |
| turbid | rough, stormy |
| modicum | small amount |
| attenuated | weakened, grown thin |
| tocsin | alarm bell |
| conflagration | large fire |
| munificent | extremely generous |
| remonstrance | strong objection |