Jane Eyre Vocab

Avatar

An incarnation or embodiment, as of a quality or concept, a varying manifestation or aspect of a particular deity, esp. a Hindu deity in human form

Badinage

Playful talk

Cachinnation

Convulsive

Cicatrize

To heal by formation of a cicatrix (scar tissue). Intr.V. To become healed by the formation of a cicatrix (tissue scar)

Coruscate

Glitter; be brilliant

Deglutition

Swallowing-the act of process of swallowing.

Emulous

Egar to rival somebody or something; motivated by rivalry.

Equipage

Well-equped carriage; equipment and supplies for expeditions

Hostler

Engineer;horse minder

Inanition

Exhaustion due to starvation; lethargy; emptiness

Larchrymose

Crying, sad

Oblation

Offering of gift to deity; a communion offering; communion offering; religious or charitable gift

Paroxysm

A sudden outburst or emotion or action; a crisis in or recurrrent intensification of a disease; spasm, convulsion.

Pertinacious

Determinedly resolute in purpose, belief or action

Phlegmatic

having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament, unemotional

Ruth

Compassion or pirt for another; sorrow or misery about one’s own misdeeds or flaws

Sanguine

of the color blood, red;ruffy; having the temperament and ruddy complexion formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by his humor; passionate

Seraglio

Harem—- the women’s quarters in a muslim house, or the women themselves —— a Turkish palace

Sophistical

Celber-sounding, but flawed; of sophists

Stile

A step or rung that enables people to climb over a fence or wall