Great Expectations Vocab#2

Ablution

the washing of ones body or part of it

Exonerated

to relieve of responsibility, obligation, or hardship; clear from blame

Adamantine

unyielding, hard in attitude

Maudlin

sentimental, tenderness, loving

Contention

argue, fight

Felicitous

fitting, suitable

Erudition

extensive knowledge acquired mostly from books

Sagaciously

Keen in sense perception; wise

Affront

of deliberate offence

Pilfering

to steal stealthily in small amounts and often again and again.

Ignominiously

humiliating; embarrassing

Unremunerative

not profitable

Vagaries

erratic, unpredictable

Spectre

of visible disembodied spirit.

Perspicuity

plain to the understanding because of clarity and precision of presentation; clear

Gourmandizing

eating excessively

Venerated

to regard with reverential respect or with admiring difference

Contumacious

stubbornly disobedient

Imperious

commanding; dominant

transfixed

frozen in place or time