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Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice Words in Common

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  1. abhorrence
    hate coupled with disgust
  2. acquiescence
    agreement with a statement or proposal to do something
  3. ascertain
    learn or discover with confidence
  4. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  5. corroborate
    give evidence for
  6. elude
    escape, either physically or mentally
  7. forbearance
    a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges
  8. genteel
    marked by refinement in taste and manners
  9. insolent
    marked by casual disrespect
  10. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  11. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  12. reproach
    express criticism towards
  13. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  14. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  15. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
    As there seemed to be a tacit understanding that the Aged was not in a presentable state, and was therefore to be considered invisible, I made a pretence of being in complete ignorance of these proceedings.-Great Expectations Chapter 45
  16. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
  17. vehemence
    intensity or forcefulness of expression
Created on 八月 25, 2013 (updated 八月 25, 2013)

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