List 1—From Wuthering Heights
Decamp: leave
Phlegm: lack of emotional involvement
Assiduity: exaggerated attentiveness
Ensconcing: settling in
Lachrymose: tearful
Visage: face
Indigenae: local residents
Near: stingy
Hob: hook by the fireplace
Pharisee: person of excessive religious zeal
Cant: speak with too much religious righteousness
Vociferated: spoke loudly
Execrations: words of angry blame
Culpable: blameworthy
Settle: wooden bench with a back
Fastidiousness: extreme neatness and cleanliness
Abjured: gave up
Mitigating: making less
Ignominious: humiliating
Pertinaciously: with great persistence
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