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'Jane Eyre' Vocabulary

Charlotte Bronte's Famous Novel

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br] Jane Eyre Terms and Vocabulary

Here's a vocabulary list from Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. Use these terms for reference, study, and discussion.

Jane Eyre: By Chapter (by appearance)

Chapter 1
  • sombre
  • inferiority
  • promontories
  • melancholy
  • phantoms
  • ballads
  • conception
  • lineaments
  • visage
  • antipathy
  • equilibrium
  • impudence
  • tyrant
  • pungent
  • frantic
Chapter 2
  • trifle
  • mutiny
  • desperation
  • ignominy
  • guarantee
  • incredulous
  • sanity
  • equality
  • grandeur
  • consecration
  • intrusion
  • imp
  • superstition
  • retrospective
  • aversion
  • acrid
  • captious
  • insolent
  • indemnity
  • opprobrium
  • precocious
  • transitory
  • oppression
  • consternation
  • insurrection
  • vassalage
  • heterogeneous
  • noxious
  • indignation
  • contempt
  • sanguine
  • scapegoat
  • courage
  • humiliation
  • ire
  • interloper
  • uncongenial
  • preternatural
  • aperture
  • conjecture
  • anguish
  • parley
  • unconsciousness
Chapter 3
  • agitation
  • posture
  • conviction
  • obnoxious
  • apothecary
  • civility
  • reverberation
  • paradise
  • admiration
  • privilege
  • plumage
  • stimulus
  • Lilliput
  • Brobdignag
  • malevolent
  • cadence
  • morbid
  • apothecary
  • shrewd
  • mortified
  • synonymous
  • degradation
  • apothecary
  • emulation
  • infantine
  • typhus
  • narrative
Chapter 4
  • suffice
  • allusion
  • insuperable
  • chastisement
  • execrations
  • emphatic
  • syllable
  • amiable
  • capricious
  • spectacle
  • casement
  • poltroon
  • vehement
  • interrogator
  • propound
  • disposition
  • deceit
  • noxious
  • impotent
  • consistency
  • irksome
  • scorn
  • resentment
  • offensive
  • elated
  • venturesome
  • hardy
  • harmony
Chapter 5
  • preternatural
  • pendent
  • apprehensive
  • complexion
  • congregation
  • indefatigable
  • inanition
  • refectory
  • manifestation
  • benignant
  • reflections
  • inscription
  • frivolous
  • studious
  • ignominious
Chapter 6
  • ceremony
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38

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