Les Misérables Vocabulary List #1



Vocabulary From Les Miserables

Directions:

1. Choose ten vocabulary words (from anywhere on these pages) that you do not already know, but would like to learn. The number next to each word indicates the page number in the book where that word occurs.

2. For each word, include the part of speech, the definition, and an original sentence that you write using the word. The sentence should be about the book.

3. Your list should be typed.

For example: (do not use this on your list)

Lugubrious (adj): Mournful.

The lugubrious ending of Les Miserables didn’t make me cry, although I did feel depressed.

11 lugubrious mournful

19 ignominy great dishonor or humiliation; disgraceful character

24 effaced erased (rubbed or wiped out)

28 timorous timid; full of apprehension

38 expiation atonement; the act of making reparation for

42 lackadaisical languid; lacking spirit, liveliness, interest

35 lurid gruesome

45 equivocal ambiguous

51, 137, 139 enigmatic mysterious, inexplicable

53, 74 prodigious impressively great in size, force or extent

51 enigma riddle

53 prodigious

53 furtive marked by stealth;

surreptitious

53 affable friendly, approachable

53 anchorite hermit

55 calumny slander

56, 77, 108, 155, 163 veneration respect

56 veritable true, genuine

56 antipathy dislike

56, 62 infallible incapable of error

56 imperious (61 – adverb) overbearing, domineering

57 disconcerted thrown into confusion;

discomfited

73 disquieting troubling

73 insinuation implication; veiled accusation

or suggestion

74 enjoin to direct with authority; to

prohibit or forbid

75, 178 abominable loathsome

81 malefactor evildoer

81 evince to show or demonstrate clearly; manifest

84 adjure to enjoin solemnle

85 adroit skillful, adept; especially under stressful conditions

86 probity complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness

90, 175 sepulchral pertaining to a grave

91 pernicious harmful to health or morals

108 ecclesiastical of or pertaining to the church

123, 138, 194, 198 ineffable inexpressible

127 sanctimonious pretending to be pious or righteous

132 imminent about to happen, impending

138 celestial heavenly

138 penitent feeling or expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds or

sins

154 ethereal delicate, heavenly

154 chimera foolish fantasy

154 obtuse lacking quickness of perception or intellect

162 pestiferous breeding infectious disease; morally pernicious, bothersome, annoying

162 imbibe to drink; to absorb into the mind or take in

154 ethereal delicate, heavenly (related to ether)

154 chimera foolish fantasy

154 obtuse lacking quickness of perception or intellect

162 pestiferous breeding infectious disease; morally

pernicious

164 chagrin a feeling of embarrassment, humiliation, or

annoyance

168 impertinent impudent, insolent

172 dissipation noun form of dissipate – to vanish or

disappear; to squander or spend wastefully; to indulge in the pursuit

of pleasure without moderation

181 prostration the act of lying facedown in submission or

adoration

183 privation lack of baic necessities of life

193 prodigality rash or wasterful extravagance

197 vehement marked by forceful energy

Other previous vocabulary words that appear in this section: consummate, disconcerted, venerate, imperious, ineffable

201 noxious injurious to health or morals

(203) subjugate (!) to conquer, make subservient

(203) propitious (!) favorable, auspicious; kindly, gracious

208 philanthropy effort to increase wellbeing of humankind,

for example through charitable donations;

love of humankind in general

219 plaintive mournful or melancholy; expressing sorrow

! = This word is used by a character whose command of the (French) language is dubious. The context, therefore, is not useful in learning what they mean.

224 impropriety an improper act or expression

228 vociferate to cry out loudly and vehemently, esp. in

protest

238 affliction a condition or cause of distress

238 apparition (258, 263, 297) ghost

253 languish (257) to lost strength or vigor; to exist in miserable

conditions

253 pensively thoughtfully (deeply and dreamily or

wistfully so)

256 malevolent malicious; having ill will (opposite:

benevolent)

259 dissipate (295; we’ve had dissipation) to vanish or disappear; to squander or spend

wastefully; to indulge in the pursuit of pleasure without moderation

292 imminent, (312; 284, imminence) about to happen

298 implacable impossible to appease

315 expire to end or die

316 appalling (363, 364) filling with horror or dismay

329 inert inactive

330 factious marked by dissension

333 cadaverous corpse-like

337 insipid tasteless, dull

338 cerebral intellectual

338 loquacity talkativeness

344 conciliate appease or reconcile

349 recompense payment in return for something; amends for damage

350 cloaca digestive tract

356 stoical seemingly indifferent to pleasure or pain

359 constraint coercion or restraint

364 inexorable relentless

367 espouse support (as in a cause)

382 laconic using few words

385 magnanimity generosity of spirit

386 abnegation self-denial

386 interlocutor participant in a dialogue, esp. an official

396 calumniate to slander or malign

397 intermittent stopping and starting in intervals

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