The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Vocab flash cards

Set: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Vocab

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	Term	Definition
	loathsome	detestable
	prevailed	triumphed, won out
	dismay	distress, alarm
	contempt	open disrespect
	menacing	threatening
	ire	anger, fury, wrath
	complicity	involvement as an accomplice in wrongdoing
	presumptuous	excessively forward, going behind what is proper
	punctilious	precise, orderly
	apprehensive	feeling dread, fear of the future
	severely	harshly
	ignorance	lack of knowledge
	hostility	ill will, deep-seated dislike
	naught	nothing
	remorse	guilt, bitter regret
	restitution	the act of compensating for damage
	appalling	shocking, bewildering, causing fear or dismay
	audacity	boldness
	grievous	causing sorrow
	thwarting	to prevent
	commenced	to begin
	shirked	to avoid
	atonement	to make up
	brutal	cruel, fierce
	frenzy	a state of wild excitement
	transpired	taken place, happened
	pronounced	distinct, obvious
	persistent	refusing to give up
	prophecy	a prediction
	conspiracy	a secret plan to commit a wrongful act
	conspire	to plot
	scrutinized	examined
	shrewdly	cleverly
	contemplate	consider, to think about
	skeptical	unsure, doubting
	inexplicable	unexplainable
	melancholia	sadness
	deceased	dead

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