Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Carol-Каролина Посада (Russia)
SAT/ACT Project
Semester 2
2012-13
C. Posada
25 words 23 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. anomalous
    deviating from the general or common order or type
    Humbert had a very anomalous way of life.
  2. arriere pensee
    an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
    Then Cedric looked at him as if he suspected some arriere pensee.
  3. autopsy
    an examination and dissection of a dead body
    Louise performed autopsies regularly.
  4. bilious
    relating to a digestive juice secreted by the liver
    Jean-Luc was really suffering under an attack of bilious fever.
  5. concubine
    a woman who cohabits with an important man
    Always purchasing concubines, he was always governed by his wife.
  6. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
    Gone are the fixed smiles and the demure dresses.
  7. dapper
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
    Such an elegant, dapper, casually cynical fat guy.
  8. dilapidated
    in a state of decay, ruin, or deterioration
    The roof literally fell in on the dilapidated house a few days ago.
  9. insomnia
    an inability to sleep
    Poor Haze had no idea how to deal with her husband's insomnia.
  10. knave
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
    Ace, king, queen, knave, ten is the highest possible sequence.
  11. melancholy
    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
    The look on Lolita's eyes was more melancholy than before.
  12. neuralgia
    acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
    Neuralgias, for instance, have often been reported as recurring after fright, or strong emotion, or worry.
  13. nymphet
    a sexually attractive young woman
    Lolita was the most intriguing of all nymphets.
  14. pharmacopoeia
    a collection or stock of drugs
    It was a drug not to be found in the British Pharmacopoeia.
  15. proxy
    a person authorized to act for another
    In the meantime, his women on display are his proxies.
  16. psychoanalysis
    a method for exploring mental phenomena and disorders
    By Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, smoking cigar.
  17. putrid
    of or relating to the process of decay
    In the back yard I found eight or ten dead bodies laying on the ground in a putrid state.
  18. ramshackle
    in poor or broken-down condition
    A ramshackle wooden tunnel stands on top of rickety scaffolding.
  19. retrospect
    contemplation of things past
    In retrospect, I’d be more concerned with getting out of the sharp recession.
  20. solipsism
    the philosophical theory that the self is all that exists
    The first difficulty into which idealism gets itself is that of solipsism.
  21. transom
    a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
    The doors were closed, but loud talking, smoke, and the rattle of chips floated out through open transoms.
  22. vagabond
    a wanderer with no established residence or means of support
    He died some few years since in Seville, a despised vagabond.
  23. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
    The measure of verisimilitude attainable by any story is limited by its content.
  24. pudgy
    short and plump
    He hardly looks like an assassin, with pudgy cheeks and a little beard struggling to take root on his chin.
  25. vouchsafe
    grant in a condescending manner
    No word had been vouchsafed him, no look.
Created on Fri May 17 13:03:55 EDT 2013 (updated Thu May 23 10:14:48 EDT 2013)

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.