Unit 5: Novel Study: Great Expectations, Chapters 40–59

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  1. engender
    call forth
  2. secure
    shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage
  3. account
    the grounds or reason for
  4. anxious
    causing or fraught with or showing nervousness
  5. lavish
    characterized by extravagance and profusion
  6. renounce
    turn away from; give up
  7. claim
    an assertion of a right, as to money or property
  8. prudent
    marked by sound judgment
  9. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  10. latent
    potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
  11. sensitive
    being susceptible to the attitudes or feelings of others
  12. expression
    the feelings shown on a person's face
  13. infer
    conclude by reasoning
  14. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  15. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  16. brazen
    made of or resembling brass, as in color or hardness
  17. despondent
    without or almost without hope
  18. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  19. scourge
    something causing misery or death
  20. assiduity
    great and constant diligence and attention
  21. placid
    not easily irritated
Created on Mon Nov 30 13:12:42 EST 2020 (updated Tue Feb 02 10:49:37 EST 2021)

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