Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet

Ms. Slobodzian (United States of America)
Chapter 2
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  1. portmanteau
    a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
  2. invariably
    without change, in every case
  3. endeavour
    a purposeful or industrious undertaking
  4. monotony
    the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety
  5. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  6. Copernican system
    (astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun
  7. Mendelssohn
    German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)
  8. allude
    make an indirect reference to
  9. sallow
    unhealthy looking
  10. seedy
    morally degraded
  11. delicacy
    the quality of being exquisitely fine in appearance
  12. intimation
    a slight suggestion or vague understanding
  13. necromancer
    one who practices magic or sorcery
  14. puerile
    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  15. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  16. intuition
    instinctive knowing, without the use of rational processes
  17. bumptious
    offensively self-assertive
  18. malicious
    having the nature of threatening evil
Created on Wed Sep 11 12:02:28 EDT 2013 (updated Thu Sep 12 13:17:28 EDT 2013)

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