Fragments of an Autobiography Charles Dickens Vocabulary – Flashcards
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Domestic
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(adj.) Of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family
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Drudge
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(n.) a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work
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Abutted
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(v.) to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or boarder (often followed on, upon, or against)
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Literally
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(adv.) in the literal or strict sense
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Counsel
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(n.) advise; opinion or instruction of another
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Singular
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(adj.) extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional
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Attain
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(v.) to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain
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Incompatible
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(adj.) not compatible; unable to exist in harmony
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Fancy
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(n.) imagination or fantasy; especially as exercised in a capricious manner
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Currant
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(n.) a small seedless raisin; produced mainly in California and Levant, and used in cookery and confectionary
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Patomime
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(n.) the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, and feeling ect. by gestures without speech
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Emulation
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(n.) effort or desire to equal or excel others
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Desolate
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(adj.) dreary; dismal; gloomy
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Encamp
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(v.) to share living quarters; to settle or lodge in a camp
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Apparation
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(n.) a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost, a spectator, or phantom
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Humiliation
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(n.) an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated
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Embellishment
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(n.) an ornament or decoration
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Exclusive
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(adj.) shutting out others from a part or share
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Confectioner
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(n.) a person who makes and sells candies, ice cream, cakes, ect.
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Resert
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(v.) to sort or arrange (cards, papers, ect.) again
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Inscriptions
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(n.) something inscribed
