A Tale of Two Cities- Selected Vocabulary Words

Tumbrils

a cart used to convey condemned prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

Retinue

a group of advisers

Unfathomable

incapable of being fully explored or understood

Inexorable

impossible to persuade; impossible to stop

Pecuniary

relating to money

Humility

a modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness

Extemporized

compose or perform without preparation

Aphorism

a pithy (concise) observation that contains a general truth

Deprecatory

expressing disapproval; disapproving

Imputation

a charge or claim that someone has done something undesirable

Emulative

copying something achieved by someone else and trying to do it as well as they have

Impenitently

in a manner that doesn’t show regret

Fervent

having or displaying a passionate intensity

Ostentatious

characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress

Venerable

accorded a great deal of respect

Apostrophizing

address an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem to someone or something

Assiduously

with great care and perseverance

Modicum

a small portion; limited quantity

Sequestered

isolate; OR take legal possession of

Dissonance

lack of harmony among musical notes or other elements