Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Vocabulary List 1

Chapter 1-5

1. Crimped - pleated

2. Drear – dreary

3. Fervently – passionately

4. Bilious – bad-tempered, as someone suffering from a liver ailment

5. Subjoined – added to what had already been stated

6. Ignominy – shame and/or dishonor

7. Retrospective – looking back to the past

8. Quail – draw back in fear; cower

9. Aversion – strong dislike

10. Turbid – muddy

11. Captious – fond of catching others in mistakes

12. Indemnity – exemption from penalties

13. Opprobrium – disgrace or infamy attached to shameful conduct

14. Sanguine – cheerful and confident

15. Chancel – the area around the altar in a church

16. Preternatural – supernatural

17. Virulent – full of hate

18. Duplicity – deception

19. Enounce – enunciate; pronounce clearly and distinctly

20. Degradation – a lowering in rank or status, accompanied by a feeling of humiliation

21. Insuperable – insurmountable

22. Execration – curse

23. Inanition – emptiness, as from lack of food

24. Refectory – a dining hall in a convent, school, or similar institution

25. Redolent – smelling of; reminding one of