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| profligate: Mr. Rochester declared he was not a profligate. |
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| a person given to wildly extravagant and usually grossly self-indulgent expenditure |
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| upas: Mr. Rochester compared Bertha to a upas tree. |
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| a deciduous tree of tropical Africa and Asia that yields a latex used as an arrow poison |
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| familiar: Mr. Rochester claimed that Bertha’s actions were prompted by a familiar. |
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| a spirit or demon that serves or prompts an individual |
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| avaricious: Mr. Rochester’s father was avaricious. |
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| prurience: Mr. Rochester was lured into marriage by prurience. |
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| the quality or state of being marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
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| odious: The thought of his marriage with Bertha was odious to Mr. Rochester. |
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| arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance |
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| antipodes: Mr. Rochester wanted the antipodes of Bertha. |
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| the exact opposite or contrary |
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| diffident: Jane had a diffident manner. |
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| hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence |
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| furtively: Jane furtively wiped away her tears. |
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| magnanimity: Mr. Rochester regretted not appealing to Jane’s magnanimity. |
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| loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
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| syncope: Jane recalled the syncope caused by the red room. |
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| loss of consciousness resulting from insufficient blood flow to the brain |
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| destitute: Jane quickly became destitute after leaving Thornfield. |
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| lacking possessions and resources |
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| crag: Jane used a crag for shelter until she found a home. |
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| a steep rugged rock or cliff |
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| lexicon: Mary and Hannah kept a German lexicon for reference. |
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| a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions |
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| mendicant: Once accepted by the Rivers, Jane no longer needed to be a mendicant. |
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| a person who lives by begging; beggar |
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| torpid: St. John advised Jane to sleep torpid until she got better. |
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| tractability: St. John saw little tractability in Jane. |
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| culpability: Jane declared herself free of culpability. |
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| blameworthiness; deservingness of condemnation or blame |
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| expostulate: Mary and Diana would expostulate whenever St. John went out in bad weather. |
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| to reason earnestly with a person for purposes of dissuasion or remonstrance |
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| inexorable: As gentle as he seemed, St. John was an inexorable man. |
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| not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped |
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