Thursday, September 23, 2010

House of Mirth Vocabulary, Chapters 1-8

The House of Mirth Vocabulary Sheet
Part 1:
Chapter 1

desultory, contrive, cotillion, plaintively, fastidiousness, perplexity, provocation, interrogatively, conjecture


Chapter 2

scruples, obdurate, dissembling, idiosyncrasies, despoil, candid, contingency, germinating, inculcate, sinuous


Chapter 3
decanters, meagreness, abject, odious, interminable, remittances, resentment, deplored, magnitude, immemorial, dinginess, volatility, indulgence


Chapter 4
servitude, harmonious, incongruously, reminiscence, extraneous, tacitly, inarticulate, recapitulation, volubility, encroaching, contemptuous


Chapter 5
lustre, subversive, deplorable, malleable, alluring, acquiescence, temperate, jocularity, crestfallen, disconcerted, piqued, boisterous


Chapter 6
exhilaration, aloofness, obscurity, fastidious, dismal, poignant, celibate, refurbish, eclectic, belitte, hideous



Chapter 7

admonishing, retaliate, circuitous, depleted, crudity, desecration, consoled


Chapter 8

complacency, ambiguity, mystically, complacency, aspirations, philanthropy, blundering, repugnance, allusion, superfluous

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