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Pride & Prejudice
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General Vocab
9th Grade
03/23/2008

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Term
parsonage
Definition
n. house provided by church for its pastor
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upheaval
Definition
n. violent agitation/change
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microcosm
Definition
n. individual/community thought of as a mini-world or universe
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gentry
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n. aristocracy; esp. class of English people between nobility and yeomanry
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yeoman
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n. one of a class of English estate-owners (freeholders) below the gentry
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matrimony
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n. marriage
from "mater" which means mother
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felicity
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n. quality or state of being happy
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fidelity
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n.
-quality/state of being faithful
-accuracy
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discreet
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adj. showing good judgment
-capable of observing prudent silence
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prudent
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adj. shrewd, cautious
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seminal
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adj. containing/contributing to the seeds of later development; creative & original
* TIP: think "semen"
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recuperate
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v. to get back and recover as in health/strength
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precocious
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adj. early in development, esp. mental
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regent
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n. person who rules during childhood, absence, or incapacity of the sovereigh
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proprietary
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adj. characteristic of an owner [of a business]
-made and sold by the one with the sole right to do so
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reconcile
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v. to cause to be harmonious again
-adjust, settle [reconcile differences]
-bring into submission
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attest
Definition
v. to certify as genuine
-manifest, testify
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scanty
Definition
adj. not sufficient
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efficacy
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n.something that produces an intended effect

<"the efficacy of poetry in driving away love">
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insularity
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n. narrow-mindedness: "the class-sonscious insularity"
-isolation: dwelling/situated on an island
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rector
Definition
n. prime minister in charge of a parish [church district or community, like Steventon, a village in England, where Jane Austen's father was its rector]
-head of a university or school
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manifest
Definition
to make evident
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