Pride and Prejudice Chapter 17-20 Vocabulary Terms

Devotion to the truth

• Veracity (noun)

• Quadrille (noun)

• Taciturn (adjective)

• Accost (verb)

Formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech

• Laity (noun)

• Indifferent (adjective)

• Civility (noun)

• Sentiment (noun)

A square dance performed typically by four couples

• Taciturn (adjective)

• Veracity (noun)

• Accost (verb)

• Quadrille (noun)

Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• Taciturn (adjective)

• Posterity (noun)

• Inclination (noun)

• Laity (noun)

All future generations of people.

• Solicitude (noun)

• Veracity (noun)

• Enumerate (verb)

• Posterity (noun)

Approach and address someone boldly or aggressively.

• Sentiment (noun)

• Accost (verb)

• Indifferent (adjective)

• Civility (noun)

Care or concern for someone or something.

• Inclination (noun)

• Posterity (noun)

• Solicitude (noun)

• Quadrille (noun)

Thought, or judgment prompted by feeling

• Sentiment (noun)

• Enumerate (verb)

• Laity (noun)

• Taciturn (adjective)

A person's normal tendency or desire to behave or feel in a certain way

• Enumerate (verb)

• Accost (verb)

• Posterity (noun)

• Inclination (noun)

To count off or name one by one; list:

• Enumerate (verb)

• Sentiment (noun)

• Taciturn (adjective)

• Civility (noun)