Quizlet Jane Eyre Vocab

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  1. Ardently: expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; passionate
  2. Assiduity: persistent application or diligence; unflagging effort
  3. Aversion: a fixed intense dislike; avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because it has been associated with an unpleasant or painful stimulus
  4. Battlements: a notched parapet built on top of a wall, with alternating merlons and crenels for decoration or defense - as at the top of fortified castles
  5. Bilious: having or resulting from an ailment of bile or liver; bad-tempered
  6. Conjugal: of or relating to marriage or the relationship of spouses
  7. Consecrate: to set apart something as holy or revered
  8. Consumption: a progressive wasting of body tissue; pulmonary TB
  9. Creed: a formal statement of religious belief; a system of belief, principles, or opinions
  10. Embowered: enclosed or sheltered in or as if in a bower
  11. Execrations: the act of cursing; a curse; something that is cursed or loathed
  12. Forbearance: tolerance and self-control in the face of provocation; the act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience
  13. Impediment: something that impedes; a hindrance or obstruction; something that obstructs the making of a legal contract
  14. Mortify: to discipline one's body and physical appetites by self-denial or self-inflicted privation; to cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride
  15. Noxious: harmful to the health; injurious; morally injurious, corrupting; unwholesome
  16. Ostensible: represented or appearing as such
  17. Preternatural: out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural; transcending the natural or material order; supernatural
  18. Propriety: the quality of being proper; appropriateness; conformity to prevailing customs and usages
  19. Puerile: belonging to childhood; juvenile; immature; childish
  20. Refectory: a room where meals are served, especially in a college or other institution
  21. Sequestered: to cause to withdraw into seclusion; to remove or set apart; segregate
  22. Slatternly: slovenly; untidy; sluttish; negligent; dirty
  23. Truculent: expressing bitter opposition; scathing; disposed to fight; pugnacious
  24. Virile: having or shadowing masculine spirit, strength, vigor, or power
  25. Wraith: an apparition of a living person that appears as portent just before that person's death; the ghost of a dead person; something shadowy and insubstantial