Pride & Prejudice Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| affability | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| affinity | a natural attraction or feeling of kinship, |
| approbation | (n.) the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval |
| arch | characteristic of those who treat others with condescension |
| assiduous | marked by care and persistent effort |
| caprice | whim; sudden change of mind without any real cause |
| chaise | a carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top |
| circumspection | caution characterized by looking at a problem from all sides and considering its possible results |
| complaisance | a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others |
| countenance | calm expression |
| deign | do something that one considers to be below one's dignity |
| diffident | shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved |
| ductility | easily led or influenced |
| eclat | dazzling effect |
| entreaty | a serious request for something |
| fastidious | difficult to please |
| felicity | great happiness |
| haughty | blatantly proud |
| hauteur | arrogance |
| impertinent | irrelevant |
| insipid | lacking taste or savor |
| intrepidity | characterized by fearlessness or endurance |
| laconic | use of minimum words |
| mien | air or bearing especially as expressive of attitude or personality |
| mortification | the subjection and denial of bodily passions and appetites by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort |
| obsequious | marked by fawning attentiveness |
| ostentation | excessive display |
| pliancy | easily influenced |
| propitious | presenting favorable circumstances |
| scruple | a minute part or quantity |
| scrupulous | having morals |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune |
| solicitude | the state of being concerned and anxious |
| superciliousness | the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior |
| surmount | to surpass in quality or attainment |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| unappeasable | impossible to satisfy |
| veneration | respect or awe inspired by dignity, wisdom, dedication, or talent of a person |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
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