English: Pride and Prejudice

5 flashcards · English · by lakesare

1. raillery

   Good-humoured teasing. ‘she was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers’ ‘Won't this type of biting raillery create enemies for you when it is published?’ ‘The raillery of the two main characters lacks any real emotional context.’ ‘And so commences the raillery, at the expense of the grousing giant.’

2. zealously ‘The left wing still kind of exists now, but they're not so zealous.’

   Early 16th century from a medieval Latin derivative of Latin zelus ‘zeal, jealousy’.

3. mirth

   Amusement, especially as expressed in laughter.

4. insipid There was nothing in any of the party which could recommend them as companions to the Dashwoods; but the cold insipidity of Lady Middleton was so particularly repulsive, that in comparison of it the gravity of Colonel Brandon, and even the boisterous mirth of Sir John and his mother-in-law was interesting.

   Lacking flavour; weak or tasteless. ‘mugs of insipid coffee’ 1.1Lacking vigour or interest.‘many artists continued to churn out insipid, shallow works’

5. solicitude

   Care or concern for someone or something.