LS vocabulary review

  1. Workhouse: (especially in the UK) A public institution in which paupers were housed and required to work.

  2. Beggar: a person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.

  3. Bad-tempered: easily annoyed or made angry.

  4. Beadle: Historically, a parish officer with various duties, such as keeping order in church, punishing minor offenders, or ushering at a university.

  5. Undertaker: A person whose business is to prepare dead bodies for burial or cremation and to make arrangements for funerals.

  6. Parcel: a container or package holding items for shipping or delivery, often associated with personal mail and goods.

  7. Burial: the action or practice of burying a dead body.

  8. Dreadful: causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious.

  9. Magistrate: A civil officer who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.

  10. Pounds: a type of currency used in Great Brittain

  11. Murmur: a low indistinct but often continuous sound

  12. Misery: a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort.

  13. Handkerchief: A square of cotton or other finely woven material, typically carried in one's pocket or purse for blowing one's nose or wiping one's eyes, face, or hands.

  14. Disagreeable: something or someone that is unpleasant, offensive, or not to one's liking.

  15. Witnesses: people who have seen the committing of a crime.

  16. Pavement: the side of the road where people can walk on foot

  17. Demand: the expression of a person when wanting something

  18. Furiously: to do something with anger or great force. 

  19. Reluctantly: With unwillingness and hesitation; disinclined

  20. Disappearance: the instance or situation of something/someone gone missing

  21. Interrupted: to cut in between or to stop the process of something

  22. Nonsense: something that lacks sense, is illogical, or is considered silly or untrue.

  23. Shillings: a former British coin and monetary unit equal to one twentieth of a pound or twelve pence.

  24. Illegitimate: (Of a child) born of parents not married to each other.

  25. Desperately: in a way that shows despair or being stuck in a situation

  26. Amazement: a feeling of great surprise or wonder.

  27. Frowning: the action of forming an expression of disapproval, displeasure, or concentration by furrowing one's brows.

  28. Passage: a narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway.

  29. Unconscious: not awake and aware of and responding to one's environment.

  30. Mechanically: without thought or spontaneity; automatically.

  31. Spoil: harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent.

  32. Doubtful: feeling uncertain about something.

  33. Ruin: to destroy

  34. Politician: a person who studies and knows about politic

  35. Dim: to lower, usually light

  36. Leant: (UK’s verb 2 of lean) to have leaned on something for balance

  37. Pawnbroker: A person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security.

  38. Locket: A small ornamental case, typically made of gold or silver, worn around a person's neck on a chain and used to hold a miniature photograph or a curl of hair.

  39. Expedition: a journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, research, or war.

  40. Clumsiness: the quality of being awkward or careless in one's movements.

  41. Temper: a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm.

  42. Crept: (Past tense of creep) moved slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed.

  43. Suspicion: a feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true.

  44. Spirit: The nonphysical part of a person, often regarded as an individual's true self or soul.

  45. Despair: the complete loss or absence of hope.

  46. Seize: Take hold of suddenly and forcibly.

  47. Contentment

  48. Inheritance: A thing that is inherited, usually wealth or possessions. 

  49. Fraud: Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.

  50. Part: to separate or go different ways

  51. Jerk: A quick, sharp, sudden movement.

  52. Baby-farm: refers to a facility that traps and exploits pregnant women. 

  53. Enthusiasm: intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.