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Words many people don't know when reading David
Copperfield
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definitions you are very welcome to contribute
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Wish listChoose one or more of these words and send its definition.
Use of the context in the novel will be appreciated.
admonish, affliction, amicable, anathema, appalling, apprehension, arbitrary, attire, aversion, benevolent, benign notorious, boisterous, caper, chandler, compassionate, complacent, composure, condescend, condolence, conflagration, constrain, countenance, cranky, cravat, decease deferential, defiant, delirious, demure, denunciation, deplorable, despondency, despondent, dreary, dreary, endeavor, ensue, esteem, exhort, exquisite, extenuate, falsify, formidable, hamlet, hover, humiliation, immortalize, impetuous, indignation, inflict, invocation, jovial, lackadaisical, languor forlorn, latent, loiter allusion, malignant, meander, meditation, melancholy, missive, munificence, oblige, odious, oppression, oppressive, oration, partial, patrician, pecuniary, peep, perish, posthumous, prediction, premise, rapturous, reckless, remonstrance, remorse, restorative, reverential, rheumatic, sanguine saunter, scanty, shilling, slumber, solicitous, solitary, sputter, stammer, stroll, sustain, tantalize, tinker, toil, tranquil, trepidation, urn, valiant, veneration, verify, vestige apprehension, warrant, whiff, wretched