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Jane Eyre
Vocabulary XXV-XXXII
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04/13/2004

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Wraith
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An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death; the ghost of a dead person; something shadowy and insubstantial.
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Puerile
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Belonging to childhood; juvenile; immature; childish
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Hypochondriac
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A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments; having such characteristics
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Impediment
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Something that impedes; a hindrance or obstruction; something that obstructs the making of a legal contract
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Insuperable
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Impossible to overcome; insurmountable
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Convulsive
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Having or producing convulsions (an intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction)
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Profligate
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Given over to dissipation; dissolute; Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant
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Importune
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To make insistent or repeated requests (annoyingly so); entreat pressingly
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Antipathy
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A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance; an object of aversion
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Eschewed
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To avoid; shun
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Lucid
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Mentally sound; sane or rational
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Sagacious
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Acutely insightful and wise; having sound judgment
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Magnanimity
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extremely liberal generosity of spirit (noun form of magnanimous—extremely generous; generous in forgiving)
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Destitute
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Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; very poor
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Absolved
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To pronounce clear of guilt or blame; o relieve of a requirement or obligation
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Coveted
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To wish for longingly; greatly desire that which belongs to another
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Soliloquy
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The act of speaking to oneself
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Torpid
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Dormant, hibernating; lethargic, apathetic
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Tractability
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The state of being tractable or docile; the trait of being easily persuaded
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Superfluous
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Being beyond what is required or sufficient
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Philanthropist
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One who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others
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Succour
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Assistance in time of want, difficulty, distress; relief
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Brooding
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To turn over in the mind moodily and at length; fret, mope, stew, worry
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Zealous
Definition
Filled with or motivated by zeal; fervent; warmly engaged, or ardent
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Vacillating
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To sway from one side to the other; oscillate; to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another
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