Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte                                                   Vocabulary List  2

Chapters 6-12

1.         Animadversion – unfavorable comment

2.         Slatternly – carelessly sloppy

3.         Assiduity – diligence; careful attention

4.         Truculent – fiercely savage

5.         Impalpable – not easily grasped by the mind

6.         Seraph – an angel of the highest order

7.         Chilblain – painful swelling or sore caused by exposure to the cold

8.         Exigency – urgency

9.         Penurious – stingy

10.         Perfidious – characterized by a deliberate betrayal of trust; treacherous

11.       Repugnance – extreme dislike

12.       Evince – to show plainly

13.       Remonstrate – to protest

14.       Approbation – official approval

15.       Imputation – charge of misconduct

16.       Ameliorate – become better; improve; make better

17.       Ostensible – apparent

18.       Soporific – causing sleep

19.       Dissipated – showing the harmful effects of a self-indulgent way of life

20.       Stile – a set of steps for climbing over a fence or wall

English IV