CHAPTER 32 — Vocabulary
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens — key words and definitions
Vocabulary Words from CHAPTER 32
- fain (adjective/adverb)
- Willing or obliged by necessity; compelled to accept something.
- divined (verb)
- Guessed or intuited something by instinct or insight, without direct evidence.
- irreconcilability (noun)
- The state of being impossible to bring into agreement or harmony; fundamental incompatibility.
- frouzy (adjective)
- Musty, stuffy, and unpleasant-smelling; dingy and unkempt.
- fetters (noun)
- Chains or shackles used to restrain a prisoner, typically fastened around the ankles.
- potman (noun)
- A man employed in a pub or institution to serve drinks, particularly beer.
- pallor (noun)
- An unhealthy pale appearance, especially of the face.
- jocose (adjective)
- Playful or humorous in manner; fond of joking.
- quantum (noun)
- A required or sufficient amount; here, the fee owed for legal services.
- coiner (noun)
- A person who makes counterfeit coins; a counterfeiter.
- suppliants (noun)
- People who make humble, earnest requests or pleas; petitioners.
- pervade (verb)
- To spread through and be present in every part of something.
- abhorrence (noun)
- A feeling of intense disgust or hatred; extreme loathing.
- facetious (adjective)
- Treating serious matters with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippantly joking.
- turnkey (noun)
- A jailer; a person in charge of the keys to a prison.
- latent (adjective)
- Present but not visible or active; existing in a hidden or dormant state.