Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Vocabulary
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50 vocabulary words from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Honors English
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 austere | of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; morally strict- giving little or no scope for pleasure |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil; presaging ill fortune or trouble |
| pedantically | narrowly, stodgily and often ostentatiously learned |
| labyrinth | a complicated or torturous arrengment (as of streets or buildings) |
| iniquity | gross injustice or wickedness; a violation of right or duty; a wicked act, sin |
| accosted | to approach and speak to boldly or aggresively, as with demand or request |
| odious | deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable; highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting |
| connoisseur | a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgements in an art, particularly of the fine arts, or in matters of taste |
| ruminated | to meditate or muse |
| elicited | to call forth, draw out, or provoke (as in a reaction) |
| stringent | rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe |
| inscrutable | not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable or impenetrable; incapable of being analyzed |
| disconsolate | without consolation or solace, hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable- characterized by or causing dejection |
| lamentation | the act of expressing grief |
| maladies | any undesirable or disorded condition |
| undaunted | undiminished in courage or valor; not giving way to fear - intrepid |
| malefactor | a criminal; a person who does harm or evil especially toward another |
| morbid | suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy or sensitive |
| pungent | sharply affecting taste and smell; biting; acrid |
| volatile | evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor |
| impediment | something that impedes or blocks |
| cerebral | of or relating to the brain or intellect |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| prodigy | something extraordinary or inexplicable (as in a deed or event) |
| enigma | to speak in riddles something hard to understand/explain |
| inexplicable | incapable of being explained |
| derided | to laugh at contemptuously; to subject to bitter or contemptuous ridicule |
| turpitude | inherent baseness; a base act, inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions, depravity |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action, especially the belying of one's true intentions by deceptive words or actions; the state of being double or twofold |
| pecuniary | consisting of, measured in, or relating to money |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror - shocked |
| insidiously | developing so gradually as to be well-established before becoming apparent |
| infamy | an extreme and publicly known criminal or evil act; evil reputation brought about by something grossly criminal, shocking, or brutal |
| chastisement | to punish; to censure severely |
| obliterate | to make imperceptible by obscuring or wearing away; to remove completely |
| beneficent | doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity |
| languidly | drooping or flagging from exhaustion (weak); sluggish in character or disposition (listless) |
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