Lit Circles

while reading "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens I came across some vocabulary that i didn't know.

• Epoch- a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, ect.
• Incredulity- the quality or state of being incredulous, inability or unwillingness to believe
• superlative- of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme
• prophetic- of or pertaining to a prophet
• heralded- a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in a ambassadorial compacity during war time 
• pincers- a gripping tool consisting of to pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles 
• procession- the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, ect.
• bespattered- to soil by spattering; splash with water, dirt, ect.
•  mire- a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh
• tumbrils- one of the carts used during the french revolution to convey victims to the guillotine 
• atheistical- pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism
• upholsterers- a person whose business it is to upholster furniture
• waylaid- to intercept attack from ambush, as in order to rob, seize, or slay
• potentate- a person who possesses great power as a sovereign, monarch, ruler
• retinue- a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite
• blunderbusses- a short musket of wide bore with expanded muzzle to scatter shot, bullets, or slugs at close range
• contraband- anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported
• pilferer- to steal, especially in small quantities
• environed- to form a circle or ring round; surround; envelop
• unheeded- to give careful attention to
• myriads- a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things
• capitulated- to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms
• forlornness- desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable as in feeling, condition, or appearance 
• plodding- to walk heavily or more laboriously; trudge
• nondescript- of no recognize, definite, or particular type of kind
• substratum- something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer under another
• cutlass- a short, heavy, slightly curved sword with a single cutting edge, formerly used by sailers
• emphatic- uttered, or to be uttered; with emphasis; strongly expressed
• hardihood- boldness or daring; courage
• adjuration- an earnest request; entreaty
• eddying- a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion
• unfathomable- not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible
• inexorable- unyielding; unalterable
• consolidation- an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidating; unification
• perpetuation- to preserre from extinction or oblivion
• incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized, impenetrable
• perplexed- bewildered; puzzled
• emaciated- marked by emaciation
• unyoked- to free from
• valise- a small piece of luggage that can be carried by hand, used to hold clothing, ect. suitcase
• sonorous- giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place
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