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Honors English 10 Vocab

Terms

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tremulous
trembling; quivering; fearful or timid
despoiled
deprived of something by force; robbed; plundered
potentate
powerful person; ruler; monarch
incredulity
improbability; disbelief
inscrutable
mysterious; incomprehensible
inexorable
unrelenting; inflexible; resolute
lamentation
complaint; outward expression of grief
sonorous
full, deep, rich
piscatory
of fish, fishermen, or fishing
stolid
impassive (having or showing no emotion)
funereal
sad or solemn; gloomy; dismal
pecuniary
involving a money penalty or fine
discomposed
agitated; disconcerted
entreat
to plead; to beg
disconcerted
agitated, disrupted
squalid
foul, unclean
countenance
facial features; visage
vestige
a trace, a mark
expostulation
earnest protest
admonitory
warning, rebuking
sagacity
wisdom
incommodious
undomfortable; troublesome
eminence
superiority
deprecated
having expressed disapprobal
deference
courteous reguard or respect
infamous
notorious; scandalous; outrageous
pernicious
causing injury; fatal; deadly
timorous
timid
commiseration
pity; compassion
languishing
losing vigor or vitality
imputation
charge of a fault or crime
compunction
a slight feeling of regret; a twinge of conscience
emulative
characterized by the desire to equal or surpass
destitute
poor
manifest
apparent to the senses; to make clear
abject
lowly; miserable
propitiate
to appease or to pacify
obsequiousness
overdone submissiveness; the act of fawning
ominous
threatening; sinister
imperturbable
unable to be disturbed or excited (impassive)
impenitently
done without regret, shame, or remorse
trenchant
keen; penetrating; forceful; vigorous
incorrigible
not able to be corrected; without hope
ostentatious
showy; pretentious
remonstrance
protest; complaint
profligate
person given to extreme wastefulness
ruminated
meditated or reflected
efficacy
effectiveness; power to produce effects or intended results
ubiquitous
present, or seeming to be present, everywhere
recompense
to repay, something given or done in return
repast
a meal
mood
what the reader takes from his tone. in a Tale it is serious
apostrophe
oh death!
melodrama
overdramatic
situational irony
didn\'t see it coming for characters didnt think something would happen like Carton being a savior
hyperbole
extreme exaggeration
theme
ongoing idea-- recalled to life, secrets, French Revolution, resurrection
tone
what author takes toward his topic, word choice, sentence structure in Tale extremes
motif
reoccuring theme or symbol--ghost, footsteps, shadows
satire
making fun of something in the hopes of changing it

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