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Details Title: Jane Eyre Description: Vocabulary XXV-XXXII Total Flash Cards: 25 Created: 04/13/2004 16:59:08	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Wraith Definition An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death; the ghost of a dead person; something shadowy and insubstantial. Term Puerile Definition Belonging to childhood; juvenile; immature; childish Term Hypochondriac Definition A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments; having such characteristics Term Impediment Definition Something that impedes; a hindrance or obstruction; something that obstructs the making of a legal contract Term Insuperable Definition Impossible to overcome; insurmountable Term Convulsive Definition Having or producing convulsions (an intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction) Term Profligate Definition Given over to dissipation; dissolute; Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant Term Importune Definition To make insistent or repeated requests (annoyingly so); entreat pressingly Term Antipathy Definition A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance; an object of aversion Term Eschewed Definition To avoid; shun Term Lucid Definition Mentally sound; sane or rational Term Sagacious Definition Acutely insightful and wise; having sound judgment Term Magnanimity Definition extremely liberal generosity of spirit (noun form of magnanimous—extremely generous; generous in forgiving) Term Destitute Definition Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; very poor Term Absolved Definition To pronounce clear of guilt or blame; o relieve of a requirement or obligation Term Coveted Definition To wish for longingly; greatly desire that which belongs to another Term Soliloquy Definition The act of speaking to oneself Term Torpid Definition Dormant, hibernating; lethargic, apathetic Term Tractability Definition The state of being tractable or docile; the trait of being easily persuaded Term Superfluous Definition Being beyond what is required or sufficient Term Philanthropist Definition One who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others Term Succour Definition Assistance in time of want, difficulty, distress; relief Term Brooding Definition To turn over in the mind moodily and at length; fret, mope, stew, worry Term Zealous Definition Filled with or motivated by zeal; fervent; warmly engaged, or ardent Term Vacillating Definition To sway from one side to the other; oscillate; to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another