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Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities Books I and 2
Question | Answer |
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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 |