Pride and Prejudice Vocab

ALL VOCAB

Caprice

(n) A sudden, unpredictable change in mood or behavior

Circumspection

(n) careful thought and caution before acting or speaking

Ascertaining

(v) Finding out or discovering something with certainty

Fastidious

(adj) Very attentive to detail; hard to please; concerned with cleanliness or accuracy

Pliancy

(n) Flexibility or easily bent or influenced

Supercilious

(adj) Behaving as though one is superior to others; arrogantly disdainful

Vogue

(n) the prevailing fashion, style, or trend at a particular time

Affinity

(n) A natural liking for or attraction to something or someone

Efficacy

(n) the ability to produce the intended or desired result

Alacrity

(n) Eagerness or chearful readiness, especially in social duties

Implacable

(adj) Unable to be appeased; holding firm resentment or prejudice

Propitious

(adj) favorable or promising circumstances

Destitute

(adj) Extremely poor, lacking financial security

Affability

(n) Friendly, polite manner valued in social interactions

Entreaties

(n) Earnest or emotional requests

Imprudence

(n) Poor judgment that risks reputation or propriety

Insolent

(Adj) Rude or disrespectful; violating social decorum

Veracity

(n) Truthfulness or honesty of character

Taciturn

(adj) Reserved; not talkative in company

Incumbent

(adj) Required or obligatory due to social duty

Tithes

(n) Church payments tied to a clergyman’s income

Effusion

(n) An outpouring of emotion or speech

Conjecture

(n) Guess or inference without full evidence

Rectitude

(n) Moral correctness and integrity

Impute

(v) To attribute a motive or quality to someone, often unjustly

Repine

(v) To complain or feel resentful about one’s situation

Mercenary

(adj) Motivated primarily by money rather than affection

Ostentatious

(adj) Showy in a way meant to impress society

Pursued

(v) Actively sought after, often romantically or socially

Engrossed

(adj/verb) Completely absorbed in thought or activity

Impertinent

(adj) Rude or disrespectfully bold in speech or behavior

Tractable

(adj) Easily guided or influenced by others

Derision

(n) Mockery or contemptuous ridicule

Scruple

(n) A moral hesitation or ethical doubt

Pecuniary

(adj) Relating to money or financial matters

Penitent

(adj) Feeling remorseful and seeking forgiveness

Haughty

(adj) Arrogantly proud; looking down on others

Contrivance

(n) A plan or scheme devised to achieve a social outcome

Dissaprobation

(n) Strong moral or social disapproval

Obeisance

(n) A gesture of humble respect

Diminution

(n) a reduction in size, extent, or importance

Volubility

(n) talkativeness

Injunctions

(n) An authoritative warning or order

Conjugal

(adj) Relating to marriage or the relationship of married people

querulous

(adj) Habitually complaining; whiny

Approbation

(adj) Approval or praise

Trifling

(adj) Unimportant, insignificant

Brevity

(n) shortness of time/duration

Profligate

(adj) Recklessly wasteful or extravagent; morally unrestrained

Sanguine

(adj) [unreasonably] optimistic or positive, especially in a difficult situations

Invectives

(n) Insulting or abusive language and criticism

Dilatory

(adj) Slow to act, intended to cause delay

Augmented

(v) to make something greater in size or intensity

Copse

(n) A smoll group of trees/ wooded area

Requited

(v) Reciprocated — referring to love or a favor

Stratagems

(n) Clever schemes or tricks used to deceive or outwit someone

Cogent

(adj) Clear, Logical and convincing

Perpetually

(Adv) continuously, forever

Oblige

(v) To do a favor for someone, to make someone morally bound to do something

Panegyric

(n) A public speech or written work that praises someone or something

Aspire

(V) to have ambition of achieving something

Tacit

(adj) understood or implied without directly being stated

Sagacity

(n) Wisdom, good judgment

Void

(n/adj) Lack of presenc, an empty space, empty; (v) to invalidate or cancel something

Omen

(n) A sign or warning of. future event, often something bad