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To Satisfy;appease
"I shall satiate my ardent curiousity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited" (1). |
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eagar, zealous
"ardent curiousity" (1). |
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discover;verify
"acertaining the power of the magnet" (2) |
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read; studied
"The visions faded when i perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul" (2) |
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adapt, toughen, familiarize
"I commenced by inuring my body to hardship" (2-3) |
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determination
"my courage and my resolution is firm" (3) |
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two weeks
"I shall depart...in a fortnight, or three weeks." (3) |
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Intrepid; fearless
"men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage." (3) |
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depression
"if i am assailed by dissapointment, no one will endevour to sustain me in dejection" (4) |
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unyeilding; inflexable
"When he found the father inexorable, quitted his country" (6). |
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Wisdom;caution
"I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and considerateness" (6). |
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relented, gave in, surrendered:
"if you had seen the man who thus capitulated his safety" (10). |
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expression
"his whole countinance lighted up...with a beam of benevolence and and sweetness that i never saw equalled" (10). |
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kindness
"his whole countinance lighted up...with a beam of benevolence and and sweetness that i never saw equalled" (10). |
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rude, impudent
"it would indeed be very impertinant and inhuman in me to trouble you" (11). |
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friendly
"He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in a wreck so attractive and amiable" (12). |
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intense, touching, moving
"How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery without feelingthe most poignant grief?" |
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irreversably
"nothing can alter my destiny; listen to history and you will percieve how irrevocably it is determined" |
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persisttant, diligant, tireless
he was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public buisiness. |
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comtemptible, dishonorable; base, low, mean, vile
"the birth of that passions which afterward ruled my destiny arose from ignoble and almost forgotten sources" |
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stormyness, severity
"the inclemency of the weather inclined us to remain a day confined to the inn" |
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diverse, eclectic, many-sided, multifaced; numerous various
"And thus for a time i was occupied by exploded systems...flouring desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge" |
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predicted
the looks of her medical attendants prognosticated the worst event |
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drunk from, swallowed, guzzled, absorbed, ingested
"... no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and are as musty as they are anchient..." |
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narration, recap, review, summary
"he began his lecture by a recapitulation of chemistry and the various improvements made by different men" |
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rebellion, revolt, riot, uprising
"my internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil" |
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fatigue, exhaustion; apathy, indifference, malaise
At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed |
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to walk or travel about; stroll.
"We passed a fortnight in these preambulations..." |
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aquitted, exonerated, pardoned vindicated
"Such a declaration would have been considered the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me" |
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Haven, refuge, retreat, sanctuary
"she quitted her asylum, that she might again endevour to find my brother" |
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approval praise
"A murmer of approbation followed Elizabeth's simple and powerful appeal" |
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disgrace, dishonor, shame, infamy
"Could the demon who had...murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?" |
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stolen
I had provided for my sustinance for that day by a loaf of bread, which I had purloined. |
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pale ashen colorless
"for a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above" |
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puzzling, mysterious
"I was first unable to answer therse questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me the many apperances that were at first enigmatic" |
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imitate, follow
"now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue" |
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