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"Tess" Vocab Words
Vocabulary from "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
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12th Grade
10/04/2009
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equanimity
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calm temper
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ostleress
 Definition

"hostleress"

stable-woman (stable = horses)
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desultory
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unsettled, erratic
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hoyden
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rude, bold girl
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leavened
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to imbue with a modifying influence
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diment
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"diamond" (dialect)
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mommet
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small wax figure, contempt
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deprecating
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showing disapproval
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expostulate
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reason with person about improper conduct
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concretions
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growing together to form a mass
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appurtenances
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appendage
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fetishistic
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regarded as having mysterious powers
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beatitude
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happiness, bliss
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tractable
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docile, manageable
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superfluous
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excessive, needless
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penury
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extreme poverty
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quagmire
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boggy land/situation
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deferential
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submissive, obedient
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sententiously
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short, with strength
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tertiary
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3rd, mixed color
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trepidation
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fear
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sylvan
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rural, forest-like
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discomfiture
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frustration, disappointment
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spurious
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counterfeit
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coveted
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desired wrongfully
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maladroit
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awkward, clumsy
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emolument
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wage, salary
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wont
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custom
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acclivity
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upward slope
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apotheosized
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deified
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raillery
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banter, pleasantry
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declivity
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descent
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ensconced
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to take shelter, settled
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mien
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demeanor, appearance
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concatenation
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linked together
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dyspeptic
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indigestion
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vituperation
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verbal abuse, censure
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animus
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hostile spirit
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fatuous
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foolish, silly
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invidious
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envious
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ethereal
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celestial
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oblivion
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state of being forgotten
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mundane
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earthly, boring
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dolorous
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painful
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enervating
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weakening
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obsequiously
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submissively
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diurnal
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daytime happening, daily
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prosaic
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commonplace
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sundered
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separated
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disquieted
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made uneasy, anxious
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sedulously
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diligently
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denizens
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inhabitants
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blandishment
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words/actions of affection/kindness
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tutelary
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guarding, protecting
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infelicitous
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unhappy
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capricious
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changeable
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multifarious
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variety
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abeyance
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state of suspension
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ostensibly
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apparently, seemingly
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precipitancy
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rash, haste in forming opinion
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incredulously
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in a skeptical manner
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prestidigitation
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slight of hand, trick
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vulpine
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cunning
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apostasy
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abandonment of faith/principles
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mendicant
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beggar
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achromatic
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lacking color
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lineaments
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outline of face, feature, body
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attenuating
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reduce strength of, lessen
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sophistries
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deceptive reasoning
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petite mort
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little death
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iniquity
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sin, crime
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pellucid
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transparent
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palliate
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sooth, allay
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epsitle
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a letter
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effrontery
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boldness, brazenness, shamelessness
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