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Tale of Two Cities Vocab
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10th Grade
11/30/2010

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Incredulity
Definition
...it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of __________...
Definition: doubt of the truth, skeptical, disbelieving.
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Tumbril
Definition
which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his ___________ of the revolution.
Definition: Farmer's dumpcart, used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the revolution
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Retinue
Definition
...who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his __________;
Definition: Many followers and supporters, a body of retainers.
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Tremulous
Definition
With drooping heads and ____________ tails...
Definition: characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors.
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Alienated
Definition
as to this, his natural and not to be __________ inheritance...
Definition: to be taken away or changed..to turn away.
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Inscrutable
Definition
...is there a sleeper more ____________than its busy inhabitants are...
Def: mysterious, not easily understood.
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Cadaverous
Definition
...so did varieties of sunken cheek, __________ color;...men with bare arms, matted locks, and ___________ faces.
Def. of or like a corpse, pale.
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Sonorous
Definition
and a loud watch ticking a _______ sermon...
Def: loud, deep, resonant.
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Evanescence
Definition
As though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and _______ of the brisk fire.
Definition: The act or state of vanishing away.
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Piscatory
Definition
The air among the houses was of so strong a _____________ flavor that one might have supposed sick fish went up..."
Definition: of, relating to, or dependent on fish or fishing.
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Implacable
Definition
Good-humoured-looking on the whole, but _____________-looking too.
Definition: serious, not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; relentless.
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Triumvirate
Definition
But, he feigned not to notice the two strangers, and fell into discourse with the ____________ of customers who were drinking at the counter. Def: crowd, small group, any group or set of three.
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Lethargy
Definition
he had gradually dropped tot he floor, and lay there in a ________, worn out.
Def: A lack of energy or enthusiasm, a worn out or tired state.
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Laudanum
Definition
I'm as sleepy as ___________...
Definition: An alcoholic solution that causes sleep and lethargy.
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Aphorism
Definition
"whatever is, is right"; an __________ that would be as final as it was lazy.."
Def: a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion.
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Terrestrial
Definition
Do you feel that you belong to this ________ scheme again...?
Def: of or pertaining to the earth or this world; common, not outrageous.
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Staid
Definition
it was a cool spot,______ but cheerful...
Definition: fixed, permanent, unchanging.
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Culinary
Definition
Tempted by shillings of half-crowns, would impart _______________ mysteries to her.
Def: having to do with cooking.
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Nurtured
Definition
there is an affection so touching so belnging to the circumstances in which it has been _______________;
Def: Cared for and encouraged to grow and develop.
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Transitory
Definition
Many a night he vaguely and unappily wandered there when wine had brought no ___________ gladness to him.
Def: Not permanent, temporary.
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Recompense
Definition
there's hopes that boy will yet be a blessing to you, and a __________ to you for his mother! Definition: Repayment, to repay.
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Poltroon
Definition
It was be easier for the weakest _______ that lives...; Definition: Criminal, coward
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Ubiquitous
Definition
It was an inconsistent and _______________ fiend too... ;Definition: existing or being everywhere at the same time.
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Olfactory
Definition
Monsieur Defarge's ______________ sense was by no means delicate...; Def: your sense of smell.
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Apocryphal
Definition
by taking themselves to the upper rooms formerly belonging to the __________ invisible lodger...; Def: untrue, false.
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Oblivion
Definition
Another pause of oblivion, and he awoke in the somber morning...; Definition: the condition or state of being forgotten or unknown.
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Turbid
Definition
Like some great engine forcing itself through ______ water; Def: thick and muddy.
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Exuding
Definition
These three gentlemen, _________ patronage of the most offensive quality from every pore...; Def: Speading out
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Tocsin
Definition
there might be need to ring the ______; Definition: a bell used as an alarm.
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Attenuated
Definition
the powerful frame _____ by spare living; Definition: weakened, reduced.
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Cockade
Definition
The rough red cap and tricolored __________;
Definition: A multicolored ribbon on a hat, usually as part of a uniform; the revolution's uniform, in this case.
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Noisome
Definition
extraordinary how soon the ______ flavour of imprisoned sleep becomes manifest in all such places that are ill-cared for. Def: offensive, repulsive.
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Inviolate
Definition
The obligation kept _____ between them. Def: in secret, undisturbed
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Gregarious
Definition
they passed a wary eye for all __________ assemblages of people...; Def: sociable, crowds of people who could turn into mobs, at least in the revolution.
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Unimpaired
Definition
I have noted in myself that my reason will not long remain _____________; Def: Not damaged, not functioning inadequately.
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Imbued
Definition
but, _____ from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong...; Def: influenced strongly, to endow or dye deeply.
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Inveterate
Definition
and an _____ hatred of a class; Def: deep rooted.
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Exordium
Definition
This ____, and Miss Pross's two hands in quite agonized entreaty clasping his, decided Mr. Cruncher...; Def: intro part of a speech.
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Tenacity
Definition
with the vigorous _____ of love...; Definition: Stubbornness, persistance.
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Pernicious
Definition
and would show the prisoner already engaged in these _________missions; Def: fatal, dangerous.
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antipathies
Definition
...in an attempt to practice for popularity on the lowest national _______________ and fears. Def: something that one hates.
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Acclamation
Definition
...was received with ________________...
def: approval and agreement, expressed obviously and loudly.
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Spectral
Definition
trembling with eagerness to the lay the ____________ face upon her warm young breast... Def: invisible or ghostly.
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Munificent
Definition
again tellson's was a ____________ house, and extended great liberality...; definition: a safe house.
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Metempsychosis
Definition
He was still in his ___________; definition: disturbed mental state.
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Redundancy
Definition
the man was a little man with a ___________ of gesture; Def: a sense of unnecessary repetition
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Tergiversation
Definition
in that, in spite of his utmost ___________ and treachery in furtherance of the reigning terror...; Def: evasion of a straightforward action or statement.
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Ostentatious
Definition
making rather an ______ parade of his liberality; Def: show-boating.
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