possible unknown vocabulary from the famous novel
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| truncheon | a club (as carried by policemen) or baton (staff symbolic of authority). | |
| aureole | halo | |
| to dissemble | to disquise; to conceal; to give a misleading appearance. | |
| mutable | changable; subject to change. | |
| myriad | innumerable; of an indefinitely great number. | |
| labyrinth | maze (n) | |
| palimpsest | reused tablet, parchment or the like. | |
| pannikin | small pan or metal cup | |
| vapid | dull, tedious. | |
| incredulous | unbelieving, skeptical. | |
| furtive | sneaky | |
| sinecure | easy job | |
| palpable | obvious, capable of being touched, tangible | |
| convoluted | coiled, complicated | |
| officious | meddlesome, aggresive | |
| anodyne | pacifier, medicine that relieves pain. | |
| lassitude | fatigue, weariness of body. | |
| fatuous | foolish | |
| to etiolate | to weaken or become sickly | |
| obeisant | meek, submissive, ready to obey | |
| prosaic | unimaginative, matter-of-fact | |
| rendezvous | meeting place | |
| muslin | type of cotton cloth/fabric | |
| febrile | feverish | |
| ramification | subdivision | |
| simian | ape-like | |
| to demur | to object or take exception to. | |
| persiflage | frivolity, flippant; lack of seriousness, carelessness. | |
| fecund | fertile, fruitful. | |
| spurious | counterfeit, false | |
| inimical | hostile, unfriendly | |
| avaricious | greedy | |
| nucleus | center | |
| to ossify | to harden, become rigid | |
| livid | discolored, reddish or flushed. | |
| insidious | sinister, intended to entrap. | |
| surly | churlishly rude, bad-tempered. | |
| to prevaricate | lie, deliberately mislead. | |
| to vindicate | to confirm, to clear of blame. | |
| to quail | to cower | |
| to degrade | to debase, lower in dignity | |
| forlorn | miserable | |
| torpid | inactive, sluggish | |
| premonitory | giving warning, serving to warn. | |
| to cauterize | to sear, to burn, sever | |
| abstruse | complex, hard to understand | |
| equivocation | uncertainity, contradicting, ambiguous, doublethink, with intent to mislead | |
| heretic | dissent, one who does not conform to established attitude. | |
| illicit | unlawful | |
| feral | savage, characteristic of a wild animal. |
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