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A vocabulary word list for Lord Jim is arranged in order of appearance
- One: ship-chandler, jollity, incognito, fitful, ponderously, tumult, contemptible
- Two: tractable, gale, afflicted, renegade, luminous, smoulder
- Three: undulation, keel, deference, imperceptible, surreptitious
- Four: impassible, assessor, bulkhead, perdition, punkahs, eddy, volition, audibly, languid
- Five: malicious, strife, indignation, tyrannical, arduous, intrepid, quiver, callous, solicitation, benevolent, infernal, notorious, sordid, abscond, lackadaisical, sovereign, ardently, exorcism, scrutinizing, stealthy, lurid
- Six: exasperating, contemptuous, complacent, taffrail, breech, spatula, condescend, cryptic, infernal, provocation, impudence, abjectly, ponderous, susceptibilities, intonation, trepidation, expostulate, volubility, appeasement, refutation, unpropitious, allude, unabashed
- Seven: boisterously, acrimoniously, callousness, contemptuous, quaver, magnitude, languid, beatitude, imminent, clamorous, rubicund
- Eight: lanyard, circumvented, stealthily, propitiatory, venomously
- Nine: shirk, tenebrous, surmise, stanchion, jostle, grimace, rancor, verandah, impale
- Ten: furtive, palpitate, mongrel, jargon, remonstrating, abhorrent, pervade, scintillate, zenith, palaver
- Eleven—Fifteen(** in Chapters 12 and 13 all French vocabulary and expressions are translated BELOW): propagate, oppressive, uncanny, expound, remorse, placid, dormant, imperturbable, elucidate, ungainly, ponderous, impetuously, lofty, impel, retribution, vestige, vexation, dismally, insinuate, quay, unerringly, furtive
- Sixteen—Twenty: elixir, monsoon, lamentation, animosity, indomitable, taciturn, impalpable, suffuse, inanition, imperishable, destitute, incessant, perfunctory futility, dyspepsia, benevolently, malevolent, catacomb, entomologist, privation, crepuscular, impalpable, flaxen, elusive, reverberation
- Twenty-one—Twenty-five: aberration, diffusion, glower, pestilence, complacent, valise, remorseful, effusive, placid, chasm, sinister, eloquent, benevolent, plunder
- Twenty-six—Thirty: ponderous, sinuosity, impregnable, vagabond, brooding, sagacious, taciturn, sentient, renunciation, audacity, felicitous, denunciation, tremulous
- Thirty-one—Thirty-five: repentance, irretrievably, alacrity, contemptuously, propound, stalwart, imperceptible, inexpugnable, collusion, implacable, abjectness, entreat, extortionate, magnanimous, lofty, fecund, lank
- Thirty-six—Forty: impeccable, foolscap, strife, malicious, exaltation, perturbation, conjecture, ruffian, peculating, abscond, spectre, arduously, mulatto, fusillade, dilapidated, dole, edifice, renown
- Forty-one—Forty-five: flout, infernal, debilitated, jubilating, rapacious, insoluble, thwarted, remonstrate, dismal, boisterously, incontinently, deferential, consternation, fronds, totter, inscrutable
**Twelve: (French words do not include the proper accents!)
merci: thanks, thank you
# cassis a l\’eau: black current/blackberry beverage
impossible de comprendre – vous
concevez: impossible to understand – you imagine/figure
autour de ce mort: around/surrounding this death
Parbleu! (Exclamation) – good grief! Heavens! My word!
en toute hate: in all haste, hurriedly
exigeait les plus grands managements; requiring genuine/real organization/management
soutane: cassock (priestly garb)
sans doute: without a doubt, without fail, certainly
en votre qualite de marin: in your job/stage as a sailor
naturellement: of course, naturally
Dieu merci: Thanks be to God; Thank goodness!
on fait ce qu\’on peut: One does what one can
s\’en va: takes off; leaves; departs
Ah! C\’est bien ca. Merci: Oh! That\’s it then, that\’s it exactly. Thanks.
pour ouvrir l\’oeil: to/in order to open one\’s eye; to be aware
drole de trouvaille: an odd/funny/strange finding
tout ce monde: all these people, this whole world
marins de l\’Etat: sailors of the State, national sailors, navy
cet interessant cadavre: this interesting corpse/cadaver
de sorte que: so that, in the manner/way of
dans cet episode de ma vie: in this
chapter/section/part of my life
- **Thirteen: (French words can not include the proper accents!)
Mon Dieu; My God
victorieuse: victorious
tres coquet: very flirty; very stylish
triste ville: sad/dull/lackluster town
au juste: just right; exactly; fairly
s\’est enfui avec les autres: fled/took off with the others
roule ma bosse: \”knock about the world\”, \”hang around after lots of travel\”
Allez!: Get going! Go on!
le metier veut ca: the job
requires/needs/wants that/that
bien entendu: \”well heard\”=of course, well/easily understood
un trac epouvantable: an incredible, overwhelming fear
que diable? what the devil? what the heck?
un derangement d\’estomac: an upset stomach
l\’homme est ne poltron: the man was born a coward
voila: here you go! here it is! Also from Nineteen: table d\’hote: \”dining\”
Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list with French translations for LORD JIM written by Joseph Conrad.
