Importance of Being Earnest Act I Vocab

a thing at which someone excels

• conduce

• tedious

• forte

• insuperable

showing sincere and intense conviction

• salver

• apprised

• effrontery

• earnest

a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury

• invalid
• eccentric
• misanthrope
• profligate

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman

• effeminate
• misanthrope
• entrancing
• indecorous

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

the term for a person who is in bad health

• heretic
• grotesque
• misanthrope
• invalid

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An overly wasteful or extravagant individual

• profligate
• misanthrope
• solicitors
• impetuous

lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined.

• vulgar

• conduce

• tedious

• earnest

help to bring about (a particular situation or outcome)

• conduce

• invalid

• recumbent

• metaphysical

too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous

• tedious

• conduce

• vulgar

• effeminate

remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account)

• expurgate

• metaphysical

• recumbent

• profligate