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'A Passage to India' Terms / Vocabulary

E.M. Forster's Famous Novel

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A Passage to India

A Passage to India

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Study Guide Here's a vocabulary list from A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster. Use these terms for reference, study, and discussion. Part 1
  • panorama
  • abased
  • excrescence
  • sallow
  • purlieus
  • benediction
  • prostrate
  • hookah
  • cordial
  • venal
  • pomp
  • plight
  • chaff
  • ewer
  • adjunct
  • conduit
  • pathos
  • sahib
  • accession
  • burnished
  • hakim
  • purdah
  • staunch
  • collateral
  • topi
  • approbation
  • seditious
  • incursion
  • rejoinder
  • salaam
  • nick
  • plaice
  • insidious
  • slough
  • efficacious
  • inoculating
  • dour
  • indubitable
  • aversion
  • dowered
  • befitted
  • idolatrous
  • miasma
  • allay
  • occidental
  • nautch
  • raga
  • debauched
  • dejected
  • nullah
  • auspices
  • arrears
  • desiccated
  • equivocal
# Part 2: Caves (42 words):
  • evanescent
  • impinge
  • malingering
  • cutlery
  • vexed
  • sublime
  • fount
  • shawm
  • serrated
  • munificence
  • precipitous
  • abet
  • cavalcade
  • imbued
  • edifying
  • calumniated
  • propitiation
  • pugnacious
  • studious
  • periphrasis
  • cumbrous
  • pedantic
  • crinoline
  • pluck
  • superannuated
  • flump
  • embayed
  • august
  • expectorate
  • pealed
  • draggled
  • septic
  • trundled
  • landau
  • suppliant
  • depute
  • lurch
  • minatory
  • inured
  • necromancy
  • entente
  • durra
# Part 3: Temple (15 words):
  • stucco
  • oleograph
  • fatuous
  • languid
  • pashed
  • allegory
  • harridan
  • impervious
  • flue
  • apprized
  • apotheosis
  • embrocation
  • irrefragable
  • palanquin
  • prow

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