English Vocab Quiz

undertaker

person who arranges funerals

dunce

idiot

disdain

looking down on someone with disapproval

toll

to pull the rope of a big bell

plaits

straw of hair

obeah

person with a sorcery practice

leper

person with leprosy disease

wake

track left on water’s surface by a ship

apprentices

learner of a craft

christening

baptising a person

curtsy

formal gesture of greeting

spinster

woman who had never married

squelching

to crush or supress something

regaling

to delight someone with an activity

revered

to feel deep respect for

coaxing

to persuade by flattery

patois

common dialect of a region

grove

a small wood

vie

rivalry

indulged

to treat someone with their desire

scorn

mockery

flourish

parade of fine words

sustenance

food and drink to keep someone alive

cistern

artificial reservoir for storage of water

outlandish

looking or souding foreign

vowed

to promise or undertake solemnly

prefect

a senior student given authority over juniors

harangue

a speech addressed to an assembly

dejected

depressed

fettered

to be restrained with chains

seemly

pleasant to look at

impertinence

arrogant behavior to a superior

remorse

regret or guilt for doing something morally wrong

odious

deserving of hatred

tonic

a bracing influence

thimble

metal sheath used on the end of the finger to push the needle in sewing

inferno

intense fire dangerously out of control

camaraderie

loyalty to

vain

high opinion in one’s own appearance

malicious

full of hate

abominable

causing moral loathing

barren

a childless woman

hypocrisy

acting in a way that contradicts what you say

camphor

white crystalline substance with oder from camphor tree

analepsis

description from earlier scene that interrupts chronological narrative

rigamorale

long procedure of meaningless statements

sororal

characteristic of sisters

randers

grosgrain

heavily ribbed fabric

bureau

chest of drawers

puttering

to make a rapid, disconnected sound

antroba

crushed eggplant dish

souse

to soak/drench with liquid

stevedore

employee who works at the dock to load and unload cargo from ships