Pride and Prejudice Vocabulary

Caprice

An impulsive change of mind

Circumspection

Heedful (aware) of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent

Unaffected

Not changed, modified

Ostentation

Pretentious display meant to impress others; showiness

Ductility

Capable of being readily persuaded or influenced

Supercilious

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

Pedantic

Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules

Insipid

Lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull

Indolent

Disinclined to exent oneself, lazy.

Efficacy

Power or capacity to produce a desired effect (think effectiveness)

Panegyric

Elaborate praise or laudation. Public compliment.

Deference

Submission or courteous respect given to another.

Alacrity

Cheerful willingness; eagerness

Laconic

Using or marked by the use of few words

Servile

Abjectly submissive; slavish

Obsequious

Full of our exhibiting servile compliance, fawning

Implacable

Impossible to placate or appease
Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful

Veracity

Adherence to the truth; truthfulness

Hauteur

Haughtiness in bearing and attitude; arrogance

Incessant

Continuing without interruption

Condescension

The act of condescending or an instance of it.
A feeling of superiority

Hackneyed

Overfamiliar through overuse; trite.
Used so often as to lack freshness or originality

Duplicity

Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
Deceitfulness

Profligacy

Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation: a profligate nightlife.
Wasteful and immoral behavior

Litotes

A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.
Understatement