Vocabulary

• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• run away with: To go away with someone, e.g. for secret marriage
• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• by no means: Certainly not; in no way.
• flatter: To praise in a rather false way, to get something
• happy: Feeling pleasure or joy; glad
• greatly: An extraordinary extent or degree
• subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
• cross: Angry and upset
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• wife: Married woman
• speak: To be able to use a certain language
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• child: A very young person, between about 2 and 15
• forget: To not remember something
• house: Place where a specific activity or business occurs
• woman: Adult female human being
• answer: To reply to a question someone asks
• add: To include as well
• thirdly: In the third place
• marry: To become the husband or wife of someone
• mistaken: To understand someone or something incorrectly
• cousin: Child of your uncle or aunt
• mark: Person's name
• enter: To start a career or an education
• suit: To be appropriate for a given situation
• usual: Being the way things occur most of the time
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• sir: Form of polite address to a man you do not know
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• approve: To formally accept something or grant permission
• respectable: Having socially/conventionally acceptable morals
• regret: Feeling of being sorry, as for what you didn't do
• animate: To give life, energy, or motion to something
• duty: Work required by your job or position
• happiness: State of feeling pleased; feeling of satisfaction
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• select: To choose a suitable thing from a group
• marriage: Relationship between a husband and a wife
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• account: An advantage
• object: Something you can see or touch, but is not alive
• seek: To ask someone for help
• delicacy: Something pleasing because of its good taste
• assure: To confirm; state with certainty something is so
• companion: Someone who keeps you company, goes out with you
• modesty: Quality of not being too proud about yourself
• estate: A large piece of land, usually with a large house
• foolish: Lacking good sense or judgment; not sensible
• honor: To fulfill an agreement
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• proposal: Act of asking someone to marry you
• elegant: Having or showing grace, style or beauty
• eager: Very excited and interested
• fortune: What might happen to you in the future
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• surely: With certainty; definitely
• urge: A strong desire for something
• refusal: Act of not accepting, giving, or doing
• conclude: To finish or cause to finish; end
• suspense: Genre of movies, novels of uncertain mystery
• alliance: Group of people/organizations working together
• inherit: To have a quality or feature passed down at birth
• torment: Great mental or physical pain
• amiable: Friendly and agreeable
• hasty: Done, made, or completed quickly or in a hurry
• parish: Area that a priest is responsible for
• manifold: Having many and various things