The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adversity | [noun] hardship, misfortune |
| brawny | [adj] strong |
| congenial | [adj] agreeable, pleasent |
| decorum | [noun] proper, dignified behavior |
| docile | [adj] easily taught |
| quell | [verb] to crush, to hold back |
| reprieve | [noun] relief |
| slanderous | [adj] false and damaging to one's reputation |
| transpire | [verb] to come to be; to happen |
| vigilant | [adj] alert, watchful |
| atonement | [noun] the act of making up for a wrong |
| audacity | [noun] boldness |
| gesticulate | [verb] to wave; to motion |
| impertinence | [noun] rudeness |
| implacable | [adj] unable to be changed |
| mutiny | [noun] uprising; rebellion |
| pinion | [verb] to restrain, to hold |
| scrutiny | [noun] inspection; examination |
| abominations | [noun] horrors |
| apparition | [noun] ghost |
| commence | [verb] to begin |
| conspiracy | [noun] secret plan |
| copiously | [adv] plentiful; in great amounts |
| mutely | [adv] silently |
| perplexity | [noun] confusion |
| prophecy | [noun] a foretelling of the future |
| renounce | [verb] to give up |
| shrewdly | [adv] cleverly |
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