Jane Eyre Vocab

20 out of 40 words

Remonstrate

Make a forceful protest

sardonic

Grimly making or cynical (mocking)

turbid

Of liquid opaque or thick suspended matter (murky)

Morose

Gloomy, bad tempered, uncommunicative

Furtively

avoid attention or notice

tenacious

to keep firm hold of something

Gregarious

found of company/ sociable

pungent

a sharply strong taste or smell

indemnity

security or protection against loss on financial burden

interloper

person involved in a place or situation where they were not wanted

Duplicity 

deceitfulness

intimated

to imply or hint at

penurious

to be extremely poor

soporific

tending to induce drowsiness/sleep

supercilious

patronizingly haughty or proud

execrations

the act of cursing

acumen

make good judgments or decisions

Magnanimity

generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.

slatternly

dirty and untidy

inexorable

impossible to stop/prevent