Great expectations vocab

Cannubial

Of marriage

Trenchant

Keen

Larcenous

Characteristic of theft

Consternation

Dismay

Remonstrance

Pleading and disapproval

Garret

Attic

Interlocutor

A person who takes part in a dialogue

Pall

Covers with darkness or gloom,

Ague

Fever

Vicariously

Through another

Acute

Sharp

Regaled

To entertain

Exasperated

Irritation

Pilfering

Stealing

Catechism

A summary of principles

Conciliatory

Restoring Goodwill

Countenance

The face

Ablutions

Washing

Gormandizing

To eat greedily

Ignominiously

Humiliating

Refractory

Stubbornly disobedient

Plaintively

Expressing sorrow

Rebuff

Abrupt rejection

Stolid

Unemotional

Unrenumerative

Not profitable

Depreciatory

Tending to belittle

Augur

Prophet

Inscrutably

Not easily understood

Vagaries

Unpredictable actions

Impertinent

Rude

Sagacious

Shrewd

Interposed

Placed between

Affront

Insult

Obstinate

Inflexible

Morose

Gloomily

Lee

Protective shelter

Monomania

Obsessive zeal

Maudlin

Foolishly sentimental

Temporized

Indecisive

Subterfuge

A trick

Encumber

Hinder

Expostulatory

To reason earnestly

Divest

To strip of

Misgiving

A small feeling of doubt

Deferential

Respectful

Lauded

Praised

Repudiated

Cast off

Circuitously

Roundabout

Portmanteau

A leather trunk

Equipage

A carriage drawn by horses and attended by servants

Harrow

To disturb

Disgorged

To eject

Dilapidated

Reduced to ruin

Interment

Burial

Dolefully

Sorrowful

Languor

Sluggishness

Ungainly

Awkward

Asseverates

Affirm

Haughty

Scornfully arrogant

Inveterate

Confirmed in a habit

Fawning

Seeking favor by flattery

Prodigious

Extraordinary

Dissipated

Indulging in excessive pleasure

Billeted

Lodging for a soldier

Poultice

A bandage

Discomfiture

Confusion and embarrassment

Apostrophizing

To address someone absent or a personified object

Niggardly

Stingy

Cupidly

Greed

Inveigled

Ensnare by flattery

Jocose

Jesting

Egress

The act of going

Lithe

Limber

Reticent

Reserved

Boorish

Crude

Lucid

Easily understood

Choleric

Irritable

Pernicious

Hurtful

Incommoded

To inconvenience

Execrated

Curse

Alight

To descend

Penitential

Repentance

Abominate

Abhor

Crestfallen

Drooping

Diadem

Crown

Bereft

Deprived

Pallor

Extreme paleness

Averse

Having a strong feeling of opposition

Rueful

Regret

Cogent

Convincing

Physiognomy

The face

Pretense

Pretending

Impiously

Lacking reverence for God

Reconnoiter

To scout

Portentous

Ominously

Acquiescence

Compliance

Diffidence

Timid

Errant

Straying

Clemency

Mercy

Venial

Not seriously wrong