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A vocabulary word list for Of Human Bondage is arranged in order of appearance
Chapters I-XX:
hansom, preposterous, disconsolate, imposing, antimacassar, bodice, parish, ascribe, mutton, shillings, perplexity, habiliment, cistern, mimic, audible, endowment, lassitude, construe, corpulent, orgy, aesthetic, alienate, droning.
Chapters XXI-XXXIX:
precedent, despotism, tyranny, pompous, obliged, exhilaration, turret, alcove, meander, pedagogic, saunter, condescending, onslaught, adherent, yoke, aloof, unction, atavistic, complacent, protuberance, patronizing, salvation, profound, sordid, precipitous, obstinacy, placidity, stifling, muddle, affable, mellifluous, mutter, sulkily, enrapture, ungainly, bounder, vehement, gruff, disreputable, imperturbable, colossal.
Chapters XL-LIX:
spacious, buccaneer, imperious, droll, enunciation, tantalize, intoxicant, reproach, ascetic, gesticulation, perusal, malignant, vivacious, contemplate, drudgery, posterity, trollop, gregarious, conscription, pedagogic, uncouth, impertinence, savory, corpulent, coy, rickety, effluence, precept, recrimination, deplorable, dexterity, manifold, rebuff, facile, dissent, equanimity, reproach, repartee, demeanor, knave, pathological, precarious, eminent, anemic, placid, rapturous, pallor, snub, languor, remorse.
Chapters LX-XC:
tremulous, dyspepsia, philistine, fortnight, idyllic, abstemious, infirmity, vehemence, amorous, impecunious, exuberance, entanglement, genteel, sententious, mendacious, supercilious, emphatic, frivolous, vicarage, impetuous, patronizing, alluring, cirrhosis, paramount, supine, facetious, obsequious, haggle, adherence, devise, grandiloquence, limpid, chivalry, imposture, acute, tawny, languid, besotted.
Chapters XCI-CXXII:
sumptuous, repast, reproach, scrutinize, pretentious, boisterous, wheedle, tumultuous, invective, dabble, cosmopolitan, susceptibilities, solicitor, exuberant, tempestuous, inanely, haberdashery, flaxen, chaff, queue, flamboyance, chronic, sardonic, furtive, incommensurate, swelter, stagnation, speculation, surmise, perplexity, dilapidated, fervent, inscrutable, efficacious, benevolence, kippers, peremptory, unbraid, warp, vile.
Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep. in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myvocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list of Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. |
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