Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte                                                   Vocabulary List  4

Chapters 25-28

1.       Familiar – a spirit, often in animal form, that acts as a servant to a witch

2.       Prurience – lustfulness

3.       Odious – offensive; disgusting

4.       Antipodes – the opposite [antipode = long o, accent on last syllable; antipodes = deez, accent equally? On ti and deez; both words mean basically the same thing, opposite]

5.       Furtively – secretly

6.       Magnanimity – generosity in overlooking injuries or insults

7.       Syncope – loss of consciousness

8.       Mendicant – beggar

 

Chapters 29-39

9.       Torpid – temporarily without the power of sensation or motion, as a hibernating animal

10.       Tractability – the quality of being easily controlled

11.    Culpability – the condition of deserving blame

12.    Inexorable – unrelenting

13.    Ebullition – a bubbling up

14.    Paroxysm – a sudden outburst; spasm

15.    Oblation – an offering sacrificed to God

16.    Neophyte – novice; beginner

17.    Propitiate – to regain the good will of; appease

18.    Tenacious – stubborn; retentive; remembering or remembered well

19.    Insalubrious – unhealthful

20.    Lachrymose – sad and tearful

English IV