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A vocabulary word list for Great Expectations is arranged in order of appearance
- Great Expectations: Stage 1
explicit, prodigious, lair, vicarious, ravenous(ly), compassionate, impart, profound, divine, declamation, disconsolate, commiserate, larceny, indignation, consternation, gloat, remonstrance, abhorrence, garret, appall, interpose, omnipotent, pall, imperious, rimy, meditative, desolation, apprehension, imprecation, asunder, execrate, grovel, interpose, parley, render, allude, oracle, remonstrate, expend, diabolical, epistle, coherent, erudition, gravity, conciliatory, sagacious, ablution, ulterior, speculation, swarthy, discomfit, hermitage, dependent, morose, aversion, retort, contemptuous, unscrupulous, ignominious, discomposure, testy, surmise, felicitous, gloat, malignant, synopsis, corroborate, indiscriminate, altercation, expound, exultant, commend, countenance, bereave, imperceptible, proprieties, capricious, oppressive, disaffection, discernible, pious, plaintive, disinterested, contemplate, stipulation, obnoxious, endow, condescend, placable, unparalleled, valedictory, dexterous, clemency, audacious, intimate
- Stage 2
dilapidated, niggardly, magnanimous, fabulous, confound, beguile, acquiesce, ordinance, wreck, decanter, constraint, patronize, courtier, depreciation, buffet, intolerable, discomfiture, discretion, adversary, chronic, mortification, despond, impartial(ity), copious, edify, execrate, allusion, disparity, interment, inaccessibility, cogent, verily, auspicious, smite, waive, compose, injudicious, miscreant, appertain, paroxysm, contingent, prostrate, reproach, culminate, impend, penitential, thwart, adjunct, incomprehensible, reparation, relinquish, impetuosity, singularity, diffidence, abhorrence, repugnance, reiterate, animosity, habituate
- Stage 3
inflammatory, presentiment, dubious, apprise, uncouth, injunction, expatriate, brazen, insupportable, poacher, irresolute, turnkey, ineffectual, abhorrent, inconceivable, profess, causeway, supercilious, abjure, incursion, devolve, spectral, demeanor, remorse, apparition, superscription, ineptitude, wicket, fealty, elate, lacerated
Links to vocabulary words lists and puzzles for other Charles Dickens novels:
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