The Yellow Wall Paper Vocab 1

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untenanted

uninhabited; vacant

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scoff

to speak to someone in a derisive, mocking, scornful way

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phosphates/phosphites

salts made with phosphoric acid

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congenial

pleasant or agreeable

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draught

British form of “draft” meaning a current of air

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basley

meanly; despicably

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lurid

shockingly bright

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sulphur

greenish-yellow in color

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atrocious

dreadful; revolting

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riotous

enthusiastic; boisterous

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vicious

savage; spiteful

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impertinence

inappropriateness; rudeness

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verily

in truth; certainly

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querulous

irritable; argumentative

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fatuity

absurdity; silliness

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frieze

an ornamented band on furniture or architecture

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interminable

never ending

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undulating

wavy

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arabesque

an elaborate spiraling line or motif

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convolutions

shapes made with rolling and coiling curves

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cultivates

encourages the growth or development of something

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inexplicable

unable to be explained

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conscientiously

meticulously; careful

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patent

open; unobstructed

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derision

mocking scorn or contempt

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