Jane Eyre Vocab Test Ch. 11~20

Cachinnation

loud and excessive laughter

Requisition

an official order to use property or materials

Gregarious

ond of the company of others, sociable 

Hector

talk to someone in a bullying way

Salubrious

health-giving; healthy

Etiolated

pale and unhealthy

Phlegmatic

habitually calm and unemotional; hard to rouse to action

Contumacy

stubborn refusal to obey or comply with authority 

Saturnine

gloomy personality

Incubi

nightmares; oppressive burdens; a cause of distress 

Contumelious

rude in an insulting way

Sardonic

grimly mocking or cynical; sarcastic

Meretricious

alluring by false and showy charms

Sibyl

Female fortune-teller

Diablerie

reckless mischief; charismatic wildness