Les Mis Vocab pgs. 3-109

an armed police officer in France and other French-speaking countries

• ignominy

• efface

• gendarme

• colossus

publicly declare to be wrong or evil

• pernicious

• unfathomable

• conjecture

• denounce

marked by arrogant assurance; domineering; befitting or characteristics of one of eminent rank or attainments; commanding; dominant; intensely compelling; urgent

• unfathomable

• imperiously

• infamy

• emaciated

an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information

• conjecture

• perdition

• insinuation

• sovereignly

great respect; reverence

• conjecture

• infamy

• unassailable

• veneration

a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others especially for reasons of expediency

• denounce

• emaciated

• scapegoat

• doleful

open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous

• equivocal

• asylum

• perdition

• formidable

in christian theology, a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death

• perdition

• pernicious

• veneration

• asylum

1. the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee 2. an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill

• asylum

• denounce

• scapegoat

• conjecture

lessened or diluted

• tranquility

• denounce

• formidable

• tempered