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Wuthering Heights Vocabulary 3
Vocabulary Set 3
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12th Grade
08/23/2011

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parlor
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a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home
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sally
Definition
a sudden rushing forth or sudden activity
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irresolute
Definition
doubtful
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mortification
Definition
a feeling of humiliation or shame
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evince
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to show clearly; prove
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ardor
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great warmth of feeling
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disposition
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one's natural mental and emotional mood
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folly
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the state or quality of being foolish
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entreat
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to ask earnestly for something
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compunction
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any uneasiness about the rightness of an action
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peruse
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to read through with care
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jubliee
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any season or occasion or rejoicing of festivity
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reconcile
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to cause a person to accept something not desired
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buoyant
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tending to float in a fluid
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lamentation
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the act of expressing grief
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asunder
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apart or widely separated
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moors
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tracts of land preserved for game; often overgrown with heath
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haggard
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having an exhausted appearance
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pettishness
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a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
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scruple
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a moral or ethical consideration
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wan
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showing or suggesting ill health
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reproach
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to find fault with someone or something
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supplicate
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to pray humbly
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trifling
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of very little importance
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spurn
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to reject with scorn
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vexation
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the state of being irritated; annoyance
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grovel
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to humble oneself
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otensible
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apparent;evident
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perish
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to die; to be destroyed through violence
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injunction
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a command or order
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repulse
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to repel, or to drive back
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cunning
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skill employed in a sly manner
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feebleness
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physically weak from age or sickness
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pacify
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to bring or to restore to a state of peace
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farthing
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a former bronze coin of Great Britain; withdrawn in 1961
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destitute
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deprived of; lacking
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sulky
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gloomy or dull
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soliloquy
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the act of talking while or as if alone
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vile
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wretchedly bad
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preclude
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to prevent the presence, existence, or occurence of
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devastate
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to lay waste, or to overwhelm
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fortnight
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two weeks
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skirmish
Definition
any brisk conflict or encounter
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ingenuity
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the quality of being cleverly resourceful
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morose
Definition
expressing gloom
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obdurate
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unmoved by persuasion
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perversity
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the state or quality of being willfully determined
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reprovingly
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to criticize, or to correct
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paragon
Definition
a model or pattern of existence
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disparagement
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something that casts in a bad light
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antipathy
Definition
a natural dislike
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potent
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powerful; mighty
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shun
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to keep away from someone or something
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admonition
Definition
advice, or caution
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contemptuous
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showing or expressing scorn
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hue
Definition
a variety of a color; tint
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incarnate
Definition
embodied in flesh; given a bodily form
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compliance
Definition
the act of yielding
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sexton
Definition
an official of a church whose duties are taking care of the building, ringing the bell, and sometimes burying the dead
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dismal
Definition
dreary; cheerless; melancholy
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expostulation
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an earnest and kindly protest
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