List 1 Tale of Two Cities

Book I, Chapters 1-6

1. Requisition – need

2. Capitulate – give in; yield

3. Cessation – stopping

4. Expeditiously – quickly; simply

5. Gradation – step; degree

6. Triumvirate – group of three

7. Doleful – melancholy

8. Provender – provision; food

9. Sagacity – wisdom

10. Incommodious – cramped

11. Counterpane – bedspread; quilt

12. Deprecate – disapprove of

13. Laudanum – a drug containing opium

14. Cogitate – think deeply

15. Proviso – hypothesis; conditional stipulation

16. Circuitously – in a roundabout way

17. Immolate – sacrifice

18. Repast – meal

19. Gainsay – deny