Jane Eyre vocab

Antipathy

aversion, or feeling against something or someone

Ignominy

Public shame or discrace

Ostenible

Stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so

Preternatural

beyond what is ordinary

Solicitude

An attitude expressing excessive attentiveness; anxiety or concern

Physiognomy

Analysis of character via facial expressions

Neophyte

Beginner, novice, someone new to an experience

Lugubrious

looking or sounding sad, mournful, gloomy

Enigmatical

not clearly understood; puzzling, hard to comprehend

Acumen

Keen insight; shrewdness

Despotic

Tyrannical, typical of a ruler with absolute power that rules oppressively

Presentiment

An intuitive feeling about the future, fearful something bad will happen

Tempests

violent storms or uproars

Reverie

A state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; daydreaming

Ascendancy

occupation of a position of dominant power or influence