the strange case of dr. jekyll and hyde vocab

countenance

• severe or strict in manner attitude or appearance

• a person’s face or facial expression

• exceeding the customary or appropriate limits in intensity, quality, amount or size; inreasonably high

• think deeply about

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

austere

• trivial nonsense

• secretly allow or conspire to do something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful

• severe or strict in manner attitude or appearance

• a feeling of repulsion; disgusted loathing

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Juggernaut

• secretly allow or conspire to do something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful

• a disease, ailment or illness

• the state or quality of being lighthearted or cheerful; merrymaking or festivity

• a massive overwhelming force that seems to crush everything in its way.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

balderdash

• surround(a place) with armed forces to force its surrender

• a thing of little value or important; small amount of something

• insensitive or emotionally hardened

• trivial nonsense

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

troglodytic

• a cave dweller; anyone who lives in a primitive, low or degenerate manner

• dirty and untidy(typically used of a woman of her appearance)

• a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

• an event that causes great harm and misery, or a general state of distress or misery

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

fortnight

• a thing of little value or importance; small amount of something

• severe or strict in manner attitude or appearance

• a period of fourteen consecutive days; two weeks

• obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

conflagration

• a very intense fire that destroys a great deal of land or property

• to take the body out again—usually to find out how they died, to make sure its really who we think it is, or move the body to a new burial site

• having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change

• a person’s face or facial expression

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

slatternly

• a bright red gem, in particular a garnet cut en cabochon

• something or someone so morally wrong or offensive as to be throughly disgusting

• a dirty and untidy(typically used of a woman or her appearance

• in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

ruminate

• think deeply about something

• trivial nonsense

• a period of fourteen consecutive days; two weeks

• a massive overwhelming force that seems to crush everything in its way

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

carbuncle

• a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

• an even that causes great harm and misery, or a general state of distress or misery

• insensitive or emotionally hardened

• a bright red gem, in particular a garnet cut en cabochon

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4