Honors English 10 Vocab
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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