english vocab

• altruistic


  unselfish and caring
• sagacious


  smart and has wise judgement
• magnanimous


  giving and kind spirited
• unstinting


  generous
• fastidious


  showing attention to detail
• judicious


  good judgement
• discerning


  showing understanding
• rancorous 


  resentful and bitter
• mordant


  sarcastic, biting manner
• condemns


  express complete disapproval of
• machiavellian 


  cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous -LMB
• unscrupulous 


  having or showing no moral principles
• cadaverous 


  of or relating to a corpse - describes the children of poverty.
• incongruous


  out of place, unnatural.
• paradigm


  perfect example
• microcosm


  something small representing something larger. e.g. scrooge and the Victorian upper class.
• avarice


  greedy
• inextricably

  closely linked
• obdurate


  stubborn
• absolving 


  rejecting
• subordinate: lower down than men
• nurturing: kind and mothering
• belligerent: agressive ready for war
• diatribe: criticism

  an inspector calls is a political diatribe
• disillusioned: see the reality
• paternalistic: freedom restricting
• traipse

  to wander
• languid


  lack energy or spirit
• quarrelsome: 


  argumentative