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| Words | Definition | Quotation |
| veterinary | a person whose job is to treat sick or injured animals, or to describe the medical treatment of animals. | There were two of them, the veterinary surgeon Ivan Ivanovitch and the schoolmaster Burkin(144). |
| temperament | basic nature, as it is shown in the way that you react to situations or to other people. | There are plenty of people in the world solitary by temperament, who try to retreat into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail (145). |
| expel | to leave some place by force. | …,reduced Petrov’s and Yegorov’s marks for conduct, kept them in, and in the end expelled them both(146). |
| glum | make sad and depress | Among the glum and intensely bored teachers who came even to the name-day party as a duty we suddenly saw a new Aphrodite risen from the waves; she walked with her arms akimbo, laughed, sang, danced…(147). |
| thump | to beat or strike heavily with the fist. | "And I tell you I have read it," cries Kovalenko, thumping his stick on the pavement (148). |
| Words | Definition | Quotation |
| apricot | small juicy soft orange-yellow fruit | Byelinkov: I don't care for apricots (1514). |
| amicable | friendly ( esp. of relation) | Byelinkov:...We are entering into a social contract, an amicable agreement to provide us with a secure and satisfying future (1514). |
| starched | stiffness of manner, formality | Varinka:…Your sweet round spectacles, your dear collar always starched, always …your perfectly pressed pants always creasing at right angles perpendicular to the floor… (1514). |
| perpendicular | at right angle, vertical, upright | |
| pompous | self-important | Byelinkov: I don't know this woman or her pompous son-in-law (1514). |
| reputation | the state of one person's character; | Varinka: Everyone adores you by reputation (1514). |
| hazardous | dangerous; risky | Byelinkov::… No. No new quilt. That would be hazardous (1515). |
| fraction | small part, bit, or proportion | Byelinkov: …If one works out the arithmetic the final fraction of improvement is at best less than an eighth of value over the total damage caused by disruption (1516). |
| trample | tread heavily and carelessly and damage it. | Varinka: They were cheering me on. Careful, you'll trample the roses (1517). |
| galoshes | waterproof shoes, usually made of rubber, to prevent from getting wet. | and
my most favorite part, the sweet little galoshes,
rain or shine, just in case (1514).
.…I wonder if he'll take off his galoshes when he rides a bicycle (1517). |
| premeditated | Something is planned or thought about before it's done. | Byelinkov: …That is not progressive, it is a premeditated revolutionary (1517). |
| hitherto | up to now, until this time | It now seems to us strange that we had hitherto failed to observe a detail so important in his life |
ACT1
| ACT I | ||
| Vocabulary | Definition | Quotation from the work |
| gumption | common sense ;
initiative |
If Freddy had a bit of gumption,he would got one at the theatre door (1081). |
| Ludgate circus | Ive been to Charing Cross one way and nearly to Ludgate Circus the other. . . | |
| plinth | lower square slab at the base of a column. | [She sits down on the plinth of the column, sorting her flowers,on the Lady's right] |
| soot | black powder made of burned coal. | She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and the soot of London… (1082). |
| shoddy | not respectful | She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist (1082). |
| coarse | rough or loose in texture. | She has a brown skirt with a coarse apron. |
| amiable | pleasant and friendly | An elderly GENTLEMAN of the amiable military type rushes into the shelter, and close a dipping umbrella (1082). |
| plight | unfortunate condition or state. | He is in the same plight as FREDDY, very wet about the ankles(1082). |
| tuppence | two pennies | I can change half-a-cown. Take for tuppence (1083). |
| hubbub | disturb, make noise of talking | General hubbub, mostly sympathetic to the FLOWER GIRL, but deprecating her excessive sensibility (1083). |
| deprecating | express disapproval of | |
| hollerin' | to shout or to call | Cries of Don't start hollerin' (1083). |
| staid | of quiet and steady character | Easy easy, et.,come from the elderly staid spectators, who pat her comfortingly (1083). |
| nark | police informer or decoy. | She thought you was a copper's nark, sir(1083). |
| molestation | to annoy or
to interfere with |
Really,sir,if you are a detective,you need not begin protecting me against molestation by young women until I ask you(1084). |
| Selsey | And how are all your people down at Selsey (1084). | |
| Lisson Grove | You were born in Lisson Grove(1085) | |
| tittering | to laugh
to giggle |
( Titterings.Popular interest in the notetaker's performance increases.) |
| meddle | to interfere in others' concern | Aint no call to meddle with me, he aint (1085). |
| have no truck with | avoid dealing with | I don't want to have no truck with him(1085). |
| Cheltenham | ||
| pneumownia |
=pneumonia inflammation of lungs |
I shall get pneumonia if I stay in this draught any longer |
| impertinent | disrespectful | Will you please keep your impertinent remarks to yourself (1085) . |
| repudiate | reject, deny, refuse dealing with | [Her DAUGHTER repudiates her with an angry shrug and retires haughtily.] (1085) |
| chivied | worried and hounded | Poor girl! Hard enough for her to live without being worried and chivied (1086) |
| phonetics | representing vocal sounds | Simply phonetics. The science of speech… (1086). |
| brogue | marked accent | You can spot an Irishman or aYorkshireman by his brogue. |
| bilious | bad-tempered | Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon (1087). |
| squash | crush or squeeze flat suppress | Yes,yousquashed cabbage leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns... |
| Queen of Sheba | I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba (1087). | |
| jaw | tedious talk | Come with me now and lets have a jaw over some supper(1087). |
| mendacity | lying untruthful | [Shocked at the GIRL's mendacity.] |
| pharisaic | self-righteous person
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[Hearing in it the voice of God, rebuking him for his Pharisaic want of charity to the poor GIRL.] (1087) |
| daze | to bewilder | [dazedly raising his hat.](1088) |
| impidence | LIZA:[Humikiated.] Impidence! | |
| trudge | traverse,
go on foot |
[She picks up the basket and trudges up the alley with it to her lodging: a small room with very old wall paper hanging loose in the damp places…] (1089). |
| grudge | be reluctant to | When she enjoys for the first time the sensation of being able to put in another penny without grudging it (1089). |
| ACT II | ||
| phonograph | gramophone | In
this corner stands a flat writing-table, on which are a phonograph, a
laryngoscope, a row of tiny organ pipes with
a bellows, a set of lamp chimneys for singing
flames with burners attached to a gas plug in the wall by an indiarubber
tube, several tuning-forks of different sizes, a life-size image of half
a human head, shewing in section the vocal organs, and a box containing
a supply of wax cylinders for the phonograph.
Further down the room, on the same side, is a fireplace, with a comfortable leather-covered easy-chair at the side of the hearth nearest the door, and a coal-scuttle. See p.1089 (stage direction) |
| laryngoscope | ||
| bellow | device for driving
air into or through something |
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| indiarubber | ||
| cylinder | ||
| easy-chair | ||
| coal-scuttle | ||
| stray chair | …there is one stray chair. It stands near the fire-place. .. On the walls, engraving: mostly Piranesis and mezzotint portraits. (1090) | |
| mezzotint | method of printing or engraving | |
| robust | strong | He appears in the morning light as a robust, vital, appetizing sort of man of forty or thereabouts…. (1090). |
| impetuous | acting or done rashly ;moving rapidly | He is, in fact, but for his years and size, rather like a very impetuous baby " taking notice" eagerly and loudly (1090). |
| bullying | His manner varies from genial bullying when he is in a good humor to stormy petulance when anything goes wrong(1090). | |
| petulance | irritable; impatient | |
| feather-weight cross | …when he is neither bullying not exclaiming to the heavens against some feather-weight cross, he coaxes women as a child coaxes its nurse when it wants to get anything out of her.(1901) | |
| coax | persuade gradually or by flattery; | |
| peremptorily | admitting no deny or refusal | HIGGINS [Peremptorily.] Sit down. (1092). |
| draggletailed | I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe(1094) | |
| guttersnipe | street urchin | |
| prudery | prudish attitudes or behavior | We want none of your Lisson Grove prudery here. Young woman(1094). |
| wallop | hit or beat | If she gives you any troubles, wallop her(1094). |
| zephyr | gentle wind | The hurricane is succeeded by a zephyr of amiable surprise(1094). |
| elocutionary | clear and expressive way of speech | [Suddenly resorting to the to the most thrillingly beautiful low tones in his best elocutionary style] (1095). |
| balmy | mild and fragrant | I don't want no balmies teaching me (1095). |
| whimpering | making unpleasant noise | LIZA:[Whimpering.] Nh-ow. You got no ight to touch me (1095). |
| deftly | neat | [Deftly retrieving the handkerchief and intercepting her on he reluctant way to the door.] (1095). |
| remonstrance | argue forcibly; make a protest | PICKERING:[In good-humored remonstrance.] Does it occur to you, Higgins, that the girl has some feelings?(1095). |
| reflectively | thoughtful | HIGGINS:[To
PICKEING, reflectively.] You see the difficulty?
(1095) |
| scullery | back kitchen , room for washing dishes | … for she expected to be taken down to the scullery(1097) . |
| copper | brown mental coins; or color reddish-brown | … Is this where you wash clothes? Funny sort of copper I call it.(1098.) |
| peg | pins | …[Taking down a gown from its peg and handing it to her.] (1098) |
| frowzy | dirty looking | I want to change you from a frowzy slut to a clean respectable girl fit to sit with the gentlemen in the study. (1098) |
| mustard | small plant with yellow flowers; color of brownish yellow | She perfumes it with a handful of bath salts and adds a palmful of mustard. She then takes a formidable looking long handled scrubbing brush and soaps it profusely with a ball of scented soap (1099). |
| formidable | inspiring dread
or hard to deal with or overcome |
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| dogmatically | asserting personal opinions, intolerantly authoritative | HIGGINS:[Dogmatically, lifting himself on is hand to the level of the piano, and sitting on it with a bounce.] … , she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. (1099). |
| nuisance | person, thing, circumstance causing trouble | |
| tack | direction | …Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life, and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on the wrong tack. (1099). |
| stolidly | unemotional, not esaily moved | MRS.PEACE:[Stolidly.] That’s what I mean, sir. You swear a great deal too much…(1100). |
| loftily | haughty, noble | HIGGNS:[Loftily.] I cannot change myself with having ever uttered it, Mrs. Pearce. (1100) |
| slovenly | careless and untidy | MRS.PEARCE: I mean not to be slovenly about her dress or untidy in leaving things about. (1101) |
| unassailable | unable to be attacked | [He comes to anchor on the hearthrug, with the air of a man in an unassailable position] |
| porridge saucepan | oatmeal or cereal
cooking pan |
…
and to remember not to put the porridge saucepan out of your hand on the clean tablecloth, it would be a better example to the girl. (1101) |
| routed | send, forward | [ Routed from the hearthrug and drifting back to the piano.] |
| benzine | mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained from petoleum. | By the way: my dressing-gown smells most damnably of bezine. |
| diffident | shy, lacking self-confidence | Here I am, a shy, diffident sort of man. |
| blackguard | villain | HIGGNS: [Promptly.]Send the blackguard up. |
| clad | clothed | ALFRED DOOLITTLE is an elderly but vigorous dustman, clad in the costume of his profession, including a hat with a back brim covering his neck and shoulders (1102). |
| brim | edge of a hat | |
| magisterially | authoritative | DOOLITTLE: Morning, Governor. [He sits down magisterially.] I come about a very serious matter, Governor. |
| extort | get money by using threats, force, or other unfair means. | HIGGINS: The police shall take up. This is a plant—a plot to extort money by threats. |
| brass farthing | a coin used in Britan until 1961; it was worth a quarter of an old penny | DOOLITTLE: Have I asked you for a brass farthing? I have it to the gentleman here: have I said a word about money. |
| poser | someone behaves
in aninsincere, exaggerated way to show disapproval |
HIGGINS:[Throwing the book aside and marching down on DOOLITTLE with a poser.]What else did you come for? |
| public house | public bar | HIGGINS:
Public house. Yes? (1103).
DOOLITTLE: The poor man's club, Governor… |
| mendacity | lying, untruthful | HIGGINS:... Sentimental rhetorical! That's the Welsh strain in him. It also accounts for his mendacity and dishonesty(1103). |
| jaunt | a short journey for pleasure | DOOLITTLE: It was like this, Governor. The girl took a boy in the taxi to give him a jaunt. Son of landlady, he is…(1103). |
| proximity | nearness in time and space | DOOLITTLE:…[To HIGGINS, who takes refuge on the piano bench, a little overwhelmed by the proximity of his visitor; … [He turns to his chair and sits down judicially.] (1104). |
| judicially | of, done by or proper to the court of law | |
| revolted | feel strong disgust | HIGGINS: [Revolted.] Do you mean to say that you would sell your daughter for £50? |
| unabashed | not ashamed or embarrased | DOOLITTLE:[Unabashed.]Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me….(1104). |
| pulpit | a small
rasied platform in a church with barrier around it |
HIGGINS: … Pickering: if we were to take this man in hand for three month, he could choose between a seat in the Cabinet and a popular pulpit in Wales (1105). |
| fiver | five pound note | HIGGINS: I suppose we must give him a fiver. |
| primrose | wild plant bearing pale yellow spring flowers | LIZA:…
Soft brushes to scrub yourself, and a wooden bowl of soap smelling like
primroses…(1106). |
| discompose | disturb the composure of | HIGGINS, continuously unable to sit still, discomposes her still more by striding restlessly about. But for the reassuring presence and quietude of her friend the COLONEL she would run for her life, even back to Drury Lane(1108). |
| quietude | state of quiet | |
| ACT III | ||
| vocabulary | Definition | Quotations from Text |
| pretension | assertion of a claim | …and
the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same
pretension…
…which is very unlike her son’s room in Wimpole Street, is not crowded with furniture and little tables and nicknack. In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman, and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-paper, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushion,…(1109). |
| nicknacks | =knick-knack a small ornament | |
| ottoman | Turkish; of the dynasty of Osman(Othman) | |
| chintz | printed multicolored cotton fabric | |
| brocade | rich fabric woven with a raised pattern | |
| Grosvenor gallery | A few good oil-paintings from the exhibition in the Grosvernor gallery thirty years ago..are not on the wall (1110). | |
| Chippendale |
of an elegantly ornate 18th C. style |
In the corner…There is a Chippendale chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side …The corner between the fireplace and the window is occupied by a divan cushioned in Morris chintz (1110). |
| divan | low couch without a raised back or ends | |
| fidgeting | move or act restlessly or nervously | MRS. HIGGINS: No. Stop fidgeting and take your hands out of your pockets..(1111). |
| kerbstone |
stone edging to a pavement or raised path |
HIGGINS: Well, its like this. She's a common flower girl. I picked her off the kerbstone. |
| glumly | sad, gloomy | HIGGINS:[Glumly, making no movement in her direction.] Delighted.[He backs aganist the piano and bows brusquely](1112) |
| brusquely | abrupt or offhand | |
| resignedly | resolve to endure | HIGGINS:[Resignedly.] It dont matter, anyhow. Sit down.(1113) |
| matrimonially | rite or state of marriage | MISS EYNSFORD HILL:[Whp considers HIGGNS quite eligible matrimonially.] |
| pedantic | person who insists on adherence to formal rules or literary meaning | LIZA:[Speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciationand great beauty of tone.] |
| infatuated | filled with intense unreasoning love | [FREDDY bows and sits down in the Elizebethan chair, infatuated.] (1114) |
| extricating | take our orr release from an entanglemnet or difficulty | [He goes to the divan, stubling into the fender and over the fire-iron on his way; extricating himself with muttered imprecations;...] |
| imprecation | spoken curse | |
| ensue | happen afterwards or as a result | ...A long and painful pause ensues.] |
| barometrical | instrument measuring atmospheric pressure | LIZA:... There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.(1114) |
| diphtheria | acute infectious bacterial disease with inflammation of the throat | LIZA:... She come through diphtheria right enough the year before... |
| indictment | a formal accusation | LIZA:[ Piling up the indictment.] What call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? (1114). |
| sniggering | =snicker
a sly giggle |
...[To FREDDY, who is in convulsion of suppressed laughter.] Here! what are you sniggering at ? (1115) |
| convulsion | a violent disturbance | |
| prudery | one who is too concerned with being or seeming to be proper | CLARA:[All smiles.] I will. Goodbye. Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery! (1116) |
| swoop | make a sudden doward rush, attack suddenly | HIGGINS:...[He swoops on his mother and drags her to the ottoman, where she sits down in ELIZA's place...] (1117). |
| crack | informal
: to tell |
MRS. HIGGINS: ... but if you suppose for a moment that she doesnt give herself away in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her. |
| sanguinary | full of bloodshed, bloodthirsty | PICKERING:... I mean something to eliminate the sanguinary element from her conversation. |
| canal barge | large flat-bottomed boat used on rivers and canals | MRS.HIGGINS: No, deatest: it would be quite proper-say on a canal barge; but it would not be proper for her at a garden party. |
| assail | attack violently | HIGGINS:[Assailing her at the other ear.] Yes, by George; it's the most absorbing experiment I ever tackled (1118). |
| rip | tear apart roughly | PICKERING: Ripping. [Both are heard laughing as they go downstairs |
| grip | take or keep firm hold of | MRS.HIGGINS: [... At the third line she gives it up; flings down her pen; grips the table angrily and exclaims.] (1119). |
| awning | structure, rooflike canvas for shelter | ...The
hall door has an awning and a carpet across
the sidewalk to the kerb,... -see stage direction on p.1119 |
| alight | to come down and settle,or burninig, lighted | A Rolls-Royce car drives up. PICKERING in evening dress, with medals and orders, alights, and hands out LIZA, in opera cloak, evening dress...(1120) |
| luxuriant | growing vigorously | ... He has an enormous moustache, flowing out into luxuriant whiskers. (1120). |
| crop | cut off , produce or gather as harvest | His hair is cropped closely at the back, and glows with oil.(1120) |
| ferocity | fierce, savage | He is evidently a foreigner, guessable as a whiskered Pandour from Hungry; but in spite of the ferocity of moustache he is amiable and genially voluble (1120). |
| morose | gloomy and unsociable | HIGGINS: [Almost morosely.] What wonderful young lady? (1122). |
| Morganatic | of marriage between a person of higher rank and one of lower rank, the spouse and the children have no claim to the possessions or title of the person of the higher rank | HOST: Not necessarily legitimate, of course. Morganatic perhaps. But that is undoubtedly her class (1123). |
| incorrigible | of person or habit that cannot be corrected or improved |
HOSTESS:Oh, you are incorrigible (1123). |
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Vocabulary |
Definition |
Quotation from Text |
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pallor |
paleness |
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bannister |
=banister handrail beside a staircase |
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circular |
the form of circle |
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coroneted billet-doux |
coronet = small crown love-letter |
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flinch |
draw back in fear |
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gorge |
v. feed greedily n. narrow opening between hills; content of stomach |
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purgatory |
Roman church: supposed place or state of temporary suffering after death and before entering heaven |
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crisp |
hard but fragile lively ( of style or manner) |
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tog |
item of clothing v. dress up |
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ram |
to force or squeeze into place by pressure |
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perfunctorily |
superficially, careless |
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lavish |
generous; luxurious |
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guttersnipe |
a street mischievous child |
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decorum |
conformity to social conventions |
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sumptuous |
of a size suggesting great expense; lavish |
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vanity |
excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments |
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smother |
to suppress or to conceal |
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constable |
an officer or policeman of lower rank |
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scandalize |
to offend morally or to shock |
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asunder |
apart |
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Vocabulary |
Definition |
Quotation from Text |
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confound |
to confuse (in one's mind) |
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bolted |
bolt- a sliding bar to fasten the door v. to fasten with a bolt |
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resplendently |
brilliantly, dazzling |
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proffered |
to offer |
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solicitor |
a lawyer qualified to advise clients |
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pram |
four-wheeled vehicle for a baby pushed by a person |
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repudiate |
to reject ; to deny |
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chuck |
to give up; to reject; throw carelessly |
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provocation |
cause of annoyance |
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placidly |
clam, not easily excite ; tranquil |
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savagely |
fierce, wild, rude |
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trivially |
less important |
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spraddling |
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demean |
to lower the dignity of |
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respectability |
of acceptable social standing; reasonably good in condition |
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tremenjous |
= tremendous excellent, remarkable |
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magnanimous |
nobly generous |
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chaperoned |
n. chaperon; an older woman who accompanies and supervises young unmarried people v. to act as chaperon to |
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averted |
to turn away, to prevent |
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ignoramus |
an ignorant person |
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stumble |
to make a mistake; to speak or act flatteringly |
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aitches |
the pronunciation of French letter H |