The Strange Case - Chapter 1 vocabulary

Acquiesce - (v)

• uncontrolled fire

• to agree

• a disaster

• moral perversion

Austere - (adj)

• to agree

• arrest or take into custody

• direct mention

• severe or strict in manner or attitude

Allusion - (n)

• indirect mention

• arrest or take into custody

• of dubious authenticity

• irreverent

Apocryphal - (adj)

• arrest or take into custody

• irreverent

• of dubious authenticity

Apprehend - (v)

• irreverent

• of dubious authenticity

• uncontrolled fire

• arrest or take into custody

Blasphemous – (adj)

• irreverent

• uncontrolled fire

• a disaster

• seductive woman

Calamity - (n)

• seductive woman

• uncontrolled fire

• a disaster

• moral perversion

Conflagration – (n)

• moral perversion

• dig up a dead body

• moral perversion

• uncontrolled fire

Coquette – (n)

• seductive woman

• dig up a dead body

• moral perversion

• depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive.

Depravity – (n)

• depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive.

• dig up a dead body

• seductive woman

• moral perversion