the strange case of dr Jekyll and mr Hyde

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49 Terms

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insensate

lacking compassion sympathy unfeeling

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pall

a dark covering of clouds or smoke

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trifle

unimportant trivial

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conflagration

an extensive and destructive fire

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blackguardly

lacking principles or morals

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odious

extremely unpleasant, repulsive, hateful

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connoisseur

expert judge in matters of taste

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disinterred

dug up something that was buried

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ruminated

thought deeply

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qualm

uneasy feeling

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insensibly

without sense

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elict

to evoke or draw out

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sedulously

showing dedication and diligence

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disreputable

not considered respectable in character and/or appearance

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legible

written clearly enough to read

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seclusion

the state of being private and away from other people

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unmanning

depriving of qualities traditionally associated with men such as self control or courage

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predecease

to die before

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stringent

strict precise and demanding

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inscrutable

impossible to understand or interpret

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recluse

someone who lives alone and avoids interacting with others

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blazoned

displayed prominently

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exacting

making great demands on ones skill energy or other personal resources

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inveterately

habitually

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perennial

lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time

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multifarious

many and various types

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incongruous

not in harmony with the relevant qualities or aspect of a thing

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pecuniary

relating to or consisting of money

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malign

evil in nature

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insidiously

gradually but harmfully

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acquiscence

reluctant acceptance without objection

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repulsion

a feeling of aversion

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mien

a persons look or manner

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disconsolate

unhappy

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thoroughfare

a road or path forming a route between places

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doggedly

with tenacity and grim persistence

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diaphanous

light, delicate, translucent

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lawny

like grass

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maladies

diseases or ailment

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besiegers

enemies invading a fortress

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debility

the quality of being weak

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incipient

in a beginning stage; developing into a specific type

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idiosyncratic

peculiar or individual

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accoutrement

clothing

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misbegotten

badly or evil planned or conceived

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disparity

a difference in level

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parley

discussion between opposing sides

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incredulous

unwilling or unable to believe

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turpitude

depravity or weakness