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pride and prejudice vocab
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English
10th Grade
06/01/2009

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affronted
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(adj) offended., insulted
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fastidious
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negative: exacting, meticulous, hard to please
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ostentation
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pretentious display to impress others
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ductility
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tendency to be easily molded or shaped; tendency to be flexible or easily swayed
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pliant
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easily bent or shaped
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haughty
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proud to the point of arrogance
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arrogance
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state of being overly convnced of one's importance
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supercilious
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characterized by haughty scorn, snobbishly disdainful
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insipid
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lacking flavor or zest, unstimulating; vapid
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precipitance
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rashness; impulsiveness in thought or action
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appease
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to bring to a state of peace, to satisfy
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approbation
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approval
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rectitude
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moral straightness
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obsequious
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(adj) sucking up, doting on someone
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duplicity
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two-faced
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disinterestedness
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freedom from bias or selfish motive
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impolitic
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unwise, lacking in caerful strategy
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civility
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a state of being civilized; decent behavior; good manners
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profligate
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(adj) abandoned to serious vice

(serious vice = prostitution, drugs, etc)
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licentious
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lacking moral or legal restraint, unchaste
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affability
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good personality
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candor
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frankness, honesty
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complacency
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smugness
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defer
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to postpone

or to show deference = showing respect
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deign
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come down from high position

"he deigned to give us his attention"
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mortifying
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humiliating, causing chagrin
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propensity
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innate or a tendency
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slight
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snub
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unaffected
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genuine, natural
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complaisant
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pleasing, agreeable
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