Silas Marner Vocabulary
implacable - adj. - cold-hearted and pitiless
homage -n. -respect; deference, or honor
ponderous- adj. - weighty; cumbersome
scrupulous - adj. - conscientious; careful; thorough
formidable - adj. - difficult; daunting; intimidating
aberration - n - odd; deviation from the norm
indignant - adj. - angry; incensed
monotonous - adj. - tediously boring; dull; droning
lithe - adj. - flexible, nimble
apparition - n. - ghost or spirit
tenacity - n. - determination; doggedness; resolve
pauper - n. - poor person, with little or no worldly belongings
filial -adj. - associated with family; family bonds
errant - adj. - wayward; delinquent
amiable - adj. - friendly; agreeable
candor - n. - frankness; truthfulness
jovial - adj. - jolly; cheerful
levity - n. - humor, lightheartedness
fallible - adj. - imperfect; capable of making unsound decisions
subterfuge - n. - deception; trick; ploy
diffidence - n. hesitancy; shyness
Silas Marner - Advanced Vocabulary
prevarication - n. - deception; fabrication
capacious - adj. - roomy; spacious
irascibility - n. - temper
exiguity - adv - meagerness; sparse
cravat - n. - lace trimmed neck cloth, worn by men in 17th century
hale - adj. - robust; disease free
coppice - n. - woods; thicket
jocose - adj. - given to joking and jesting
throstle - n. - spinning machine (obsolete)
preternatural - adj. - out of the normal course of nature
torpid - adj. - lazy; languorous
nolo episcopari - n. - ceremony preceding the consecration of a bishop; satirically used in Silas Marner to select constable
farrier - n. - blacksmith
tinderbox - n. - box for holding tinder; a highly explosive material or powder
profligacy - n. - extravagance; wastefulness; licentiousness
implacable - adj. - cold-hearted and pitiless
homage -n. -respect; deference, or honor
ponderous- adj. - weighty; cumbersome
scrupulous - adj. - conscientious; careful; thorough
formidable - adj. - difficult; daunting; intimidating
aberration - n - odd; deviation from the norm
indignant - adj. - angry; incensed
monotonous - adj. - tediously boring; dull; droning
lithe - adj. - flexible, nimble
apparition - n. - ghost or spirit
tenacity - n. - determination; doggedness; resolve
pauper - n. - poor person, with little or no worldly belongings
filial -adj. - associated with family; family bonds
errant - adj. - wayward; delinquent
amiable - adj. - friendly; agreeable
candor - n. - frankness; truthfulness
jovial - adj. - jolly; cheerful
levity - n. - humor, lightheartedness
fallible - adj. - imperfect; capable of making unsound decisions
subterfuge - n. - deception; trick; ploy
diffidence - n. hesitancy; shyness
Silas Marner - Advanced Vocabulary
prevarication - n. - deception; fabrication
capacious - adj. - roomy; spacious
irascibility - n. - temper
exiguity - adv - meagerness; sparse
cravat - n. - lace trimmed neck cloth, worn by men in 17th century
hale - adj. - robust; disease free
coppice - n. - woods; thicket
jocose - adj. - given to joking and jesting
throstle - n. - spinning machine (obsolete)
preternatural - adj. - out of the normal course of nature
torpid - adj. - lazy; languorous
nolo episcopari - n. - ceremony preceding the consecration of a bishop; satirically used in Silas Marner to select constable
farrier - n. - blacksmith
tinderbox - n. - box for holding tinder; a highly explosive material or powder
profligacy - n. - extravagance; wastefulness; licentiousness