Pride and Prejudice Vocab Chapt 7-16
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Solicitude | (n) Anxious, special, or particular care or attention |
| Efficacy | (n) the ability to produce a desired or intended result |
| Reproof | (n) Censure, rebuke, reprehension. |
| Estimable | (adj) Valuable, worth a great price |
| Panegyric | (n) elaborate praise; eulogy; laudation. |
| Laudable | (adj) praiseworthy, commendable |
| Precipitance | (n) a rash or hasty act |
| Celerity | (n) swiftness, speed |
| Alacrity | (n) briskness, cheerful readiness |
| Approbation | (n) approval or praise |
| Archness | (n) cleverness, good-humored slyness |
| Propitious | (adj) presenting favorable circumstances, auspicious. |
| Laconic | (adj) using very few words; terse. |
| Odious | (adj) extremely unpleasant |
| Iniquitous | (adj) immoral, especially in a way that results in great injustice or unfairness. |
| Asperity | (n) harshness of tone or manner |
| Importune | (v) to burden; to be troublesome or wearisome to |
| Veneration | (n) a feeling of deep respect and reverence directed towards some person or thing |
| Obsequiousness | (n) an excessive eagerness to please or obey instructions. |
| Prepossession | (n) prejudice or bias toward or against a particular person or thing. |
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