Details Title: "Tess" Vocab Words Description: Vocabulary from "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" Total Flash Cards: 75 Created: 10/04/2009 19:19:53		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional English Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term equanimity Definition calm temper Term ostleress Definition "hostleress" stable-woman (stable = horses) Term desultory Definition unsettled, erratic Term hoyden Definition rude, bold girl Term leavened Definition to imbue with a modifying influence Term diment Definition "diamond" (dialect) Term mommet Definition small wax figure, contempt Term deprecating Definition showing disapproval Term expostulate Definition reason with person about improper conduct Term concretions Definition growing together to form a mass Term appurtenances Definition appendage Term fetishistic Definition regarded as having mysterious powers Term beatitude Definition happiness, bliss Term tractable Definition docile, manageable Term superfluous Definition excessive, needless Term penury Definition extreme poverty Term quagmire Definition boggy land/situation Term deferential Definition submissive, obedient Term sententiously Definition short, with strength Term tertiary Definition 3rd, mixed color Term trepidation Definition fear Term sylvan Definition rural, forest-like Term discomfiture Definition frustration, disappointment Term spurious Definition counterfeit Term coveted Definition desired wrongfully Term maladroit Definition awkward, clumsy Term emolument Definition wage, salary Term wont Definition custom Term acclivity Definition upward slope Term apotheosized Definition deified Term raillery Definition banter, pleasantry Term declivity Definition descent Term ensconced Definition to take shelter, settled Term mien Definition demeanor, appearance Term concatenation Definition linked together Term dyspeptic Definition indigestion Term vituperation Definition verbal abuse, censure Term animus Definition hostile spirit Term fatuous Definition foolish, silly Term invidious Definition envious Term ethereal Definition celestial Term oblivion Definition state of being forgotten Term mundane Definition earthly, boring Term dolorous Definition painful Term enervating Definition weakening Term obsequiously Definition submissively Term diurnal Definition daytime happening, daily Term prosaic Definition commonplace Term sundered Definition separated Term disquieted Definition made uneasy, anxious Term sedulously Definition diligently Term denizens Definition inhabitants Term blandishment Definition words/actions of affection/kindness Term tutelary Definition guarding, protecting Term infelicitous Definition unhappy Term capricious Definition changeable Term multifarious Definition variety Term abeyance Definition state of suspension Term ostensibly Definition apparently, seemingly Term precipitancy Definition rash, haste in forming opinion Term incredulously Definition in a skeptical manner Term prestidigitation Definition slight of hand, trick Term vulpine Definition cunning Term apostasy Definition abandonment of faith/principles Term mendicant Definition beggar Term achromatic Definition lacking color Term lineaments Definition outline of face, feature, body Term attenuating Definition reduce strength of, lessen Term sophistries Definition deceptive reasoning Term petite mort Definition little death Term iniquity Definition sin, crime Term pellucid Definition transparent Term palliate Definition sooth, allay Term epsitle Definition a letter Term effrontery Definition boldness, brazenness, shamelessness