Honors Eng 9 Vocab Tale of Two Cities

Epoch

a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

Incredulity

disbelief

cadaverous

corpse-like

tumbrel/tumbril

cart

adjuration

plea

modicum

small amount

inexorable

unstoppable

sonorous

loud, deep sound

trepidation

a feeling of alarm or dread

acquitted

declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless

incorrigible

impervious to correction by punishment

magnanimous

noble and generous in spirit

pernicious

exceedingly harmful

illustrious

widely known and esteemed

degradation

changing to a lower state (a less respected state)

docile

easily handled or managed

ubiquitous

being present everywhere at once

emigrant

someone who leaves one country to settle in another

capricious

determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity or reason

avocation

an auxiliary activity

prevaricate

be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

rapacious

excessively greedy and grasping

inveteracy

in a habitual and longstanding manner

insatiate

impossible to satisfy