Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde Vocab

unobtrusive

not noticeable

incoherency

Unable to express ones thoughts clearly

Accosted

Spoke to first

Insensate

Without feeling

Conflagration

A great fire

Odious

Hateful

Disinterred

Dug up

Gaunt

Lean and angular

Ruminated

Pondered; reflected over and over

Sedulously

Diligently

Eminently

outstanding

Austere

strict/stern

Reprove

scold/rebuke

Sombre

depressing/gloom

Detestable

hateful/nasty

Protege

person under the support of a patron

Perplexity

confusion

Repose

to place trust in

Condoned

forgiven/overlooked

Iniquity

injustice/wickedness

Discourse

talk/conversation

Countenance

face/facial expression

Demeanour

manner/behavior

Aptness

qualification

Emulously

eagerly trying to equal/surpass another

Coquetry

flirtation

Prolonged

lengthy/drawn out

Sordid

filthy/squalid

Juggernaut

overwhelming/advancing force that crushes everything in it’s path

Apothecary

a pharmacist

Apocryphal

doubtful authenticity

Sullenness

resentment/sulkiness

Pedantically

narrow focus on the trivial aspects of learning

Relish

appetite

Holograph

document written wholly in handwriting of person whose signature it bears

Balderdash

nonesense

Damon and Pythias

Damon was mythological figure who pledged his life as guarantee that condemned friend, Pythias, would return to face execution. Both were pardoned

Inclination

prefer/favor

Troglodytic

having to do with cavemen like ape or gorilla

Statute of Limitations

law setting time limit on legal action

Fortnight

two weeks/fourteen days

Cronies

long time close friends

mien

behavior/bearing

disconsolate

sad

abject

wretched/lacking pride

calamity

disaster

lamentation

greiving/expressing sorrow

exorbitant

excessive

volatile

evaporating rapidly

incipient

beginning/early stage

scrutiny

close examination

enigmas

puzzles

stringent

strict/binding

mortify

to discipline by self-denial

peevishly

in ill-tempered way

induce

persuade

undaunted

courages/not discouraged

malefactor

wrongdoer/lawbreaker

bated

moderate/slowed down

phial

vial/small container of liquids

morbid

preoccupied with unwholesome thoughts

farrago

assortment/mixture

constrained

held back/confined