FANTINE vocabulary

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FANTINE vocabulary

• Review

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• v. to happen to, esp. by chance or fate
• Befall
• adj. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a
  person or mood
• Moroseness
• v. To disturb greatly make uneasy or anxious
• Perturbed

• v. To solve problems in arithmetic calculate
• Cipher
• adj. bending readily without breaking or becoming
  deformed pliant flexible
• Suppleness
• n. an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc
• Aperture

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• v. To move furtively sneak
• Lurking
• n. a state of pain, distress, or grief misery
• Affliction
• adj. severe in manner or appearance
  uncompromising strict forbidding
• Austere

• adj. slow dull apathetic lethargic
• Torpid
• n. overwhelming amazement
• Stupefaction
• n. wandering from place to place without any
  settled home nomadic
• Vagabond

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Round 2

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• adj. mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an
  affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner
• Lugubrious
• v. To twist, wrench, or bend severely out of
  shape
• Contorting
• n. The state of being inferior in quality,
  character, or value commonness
• Meanness

• n. a servile follower toady
• Lackey
• adv. not distinct not clearly marked or defined
• Indistinctly
• adj. courteous and gracious friendly warm
• Cordial

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• n. a supernatural appearance of a person or
  thing, esp. a ghost a specter or phantom
• Apparition
• n. the state or quality of being free from stress
  or emotion peaceful calm
• Serenity
• v. to wipe out do away with expunge
• Effaced

• n. the act or practice of liberal or lenient
  treatment tolerance gratification of desire
• Indulgence
• adj. being truly or very much so often used as
  intensifiers
• Veritable
• adj. pale faint or deficient in color wan
• Pallid

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• n. A steep slope in front of a fortification
• Escarpments
• adj. touching in contact
• Contiguous

• n. disgrace dishonor public contempt
• Ignominy
• v. to lie or be at rest, as from work, activity,
  etc
• Repose

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• Every time he said this word monsieur, with his
  gently solemn, and heartily hospitable voice, the
  mans countenance lighted up. Monsieur to a
  convict is a glass of water to a man dying of
  thirst at sea. ____ thirsts for respect.
• Ignominy
• You need not tell me who you are. This is not my
  house it is the house of Christ. It does not ask
  any comer whether he has a name, but whether he
  has an ___. You are suffering you are hungry and
  thirsty be welcome.
• Affliction

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• At last the man quite understood his face, the
  expression of which till then had been gloomy and
  hard, now expressed ____, doubt, and joy
• Stupefaction
• The sweat, the heat, his long walk, and the dust
  added an indescribable __ to his tattered
  appearance.
• Meanness

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• His __ surpassed his strength. Certain convicts,
  always planning escape, have developed a ___
  science of strength and skill combined the
  science of the muscles.
• Suppleness, veritable
• He talked but little, and never laughed. Some
  extreme emotion was required to draw from him,
  once or twice a year, that __ sound of the
  convict, which is like echo of a demons laugh.
• lugubrious

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Final Question!!

• Make your bets
• Question
• There was talk of an ill-favored runaway, a
  suspicious ___, had arrived and was ___ somewhere
  in the town, and that some unpleasant adventures
  might ___ those who should come home late that
  night.
• Vagabond
• Lurking
• Befall