Great Expectations Vocab 4
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- pernicious
- very destructive or harmful
- perpetuate
- to prolong something's existence
- perspicacious
- very perceptive
- placid
- peaceful
- ponderous
- very heavy
- potent
- powerful
- primeval
- ancient
- prodigious
- enormous
- prudent
- wise and careful about practical matters
- pungent
- sharp or irritating in taste or smell
- querulous
- constantly whining
- ravenous
- urgently eager for food
- refractory
- unmanageble
- reticence
- restraint in speech
- revere
- to honor
- rhapsodize
- to express in an overly enthusiastic manner
- rudiment
- an essential skill
- rue
- to regret
- sagacious
- wise, shrewd
- sanctify
- to make holy
- sententious
- given to excessive moralizing
- servile
- overly submissive
- slovenly
- messy
- spurn
- to reject w/ hostility
- staid
- reserved and upright in manner or behavior
- stupefy
- to dull the senses and put into a stupor
- sublime
- noble