10th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

At one time she would seem in love with him, and then she would become cold, irritable, and impenetrable.

He had a haughty bearing, a look either steady and impenetrable or insolently piercing and inquisitorial.

The thunder ceased; but the rain still continued, and the scene was enveloped in an impenetrable darkness.

His one eye met hers with an impersonal animosity.

She had studied the boys pityingly, but impersonally.

For a brief moment she wondered with impersonal curiosity what would be expected of a mistress.

Ethan knew the word for one of exceptional import.

Scarlett had rejoined Maybelle and Mrs. Meade before the import of his last words broke upon her.

He felt that the import of his speech was of such magnitude that every word of it would have weight.

The heights of Kennesaw were impregnable.

The lines around Kennesaw Mountain are impregnable.

Some weeks after, the Commodore set sail in this impregnable craft for Valparaiso.

Miss Josephine Sleary, as some very long and very narrow strips of printed bill announced, was then inaugurating the entertainments with her graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act.

I'd rather Bonnie was invited to eat dry bread in the Picards' miserable house or Mrs. Elsing's rickety barn than to be the belle of a Republican inaugural ball.

Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.

So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.

Endeavoring, then, to collect his ideas, he prepared to perform that species of incantation, and those uncouth rites, under which the Indian conjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impotency.

The dog, incited by its master, sprang over the wicket-gate and pursued the unfortunate baronet, who fled screaming down the yew alley.

Now they had not only the Bureau agitators and the Carpetbaggers urging them on, but the incitement of whisky as well, and outrages were inevitable.

And thanks to the incitement of the Freedmen's Bureau, negroes could always be found who were willing to bring accusations.

It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.

With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter.

Elizabeth looked at her sister with incredulous solicitude, but said nothing.

Still I did not answer, and still I writhed myself from his grasp: for I was still incredulous.

A more resolute, indefatigable pioneer never wrought amidst rocks and dangers.

Encouraged by this discovery, Edmond determined to assist the indefatigable laborer.

He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.

I see her face now, better than I did then, I dare say, with its indelible look of regret and wonder turned upon me.

Six years had elapsed, passed in a dream but for one indelible trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my departure for Ingolstadt.

Fanny thought exactly the same; and they were also quite agreed in their opinion of the lasting effect, the indelible impression, which such a disappointment must make on his mind.

There are men from whom warm words are small indignity.

Carol perceived that Mrs. Dyer was accustomed to this indignity.

Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.

He visited me several times after that and each time I was indiscreet.

Once, she whispered, she was going by when an indiscreet window-shade had been left up a couple of inches.

If Carol was so indiscreet as to murmur that she had a small headache, instantly the two Smails and Kennicott were at it.

But for this prince he was an inferior, and his contemptuous and indulgent attitude to him revolted him.

The old feeling of indulgent tenderness overcame her vexation, and she grew thoroughly moved and alarmed.

To the world and to his servants Danglars assumed the character of the good-natured man and the indulgent father.

It went of itself, like all such boards, by the mere force of inertia.

For the rest, among the old trees was depth within depth of grey, hopeless inertia, silence, nothingness.

But she was getting cold; yet the overwhelming inertia of her inner resentment kept her there as if paralysed.

The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed.

Nothing could be distinguished but a dark mass of human forms tossed and involved in inexplicable confusion.

At times there are gestures in it, which, though they would well grace the hand of man, remain wholly inexplicable.

I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.

She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it.

Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

Mr. Micawber, I may remark, had taken his full share of the general bow, and had received it with infinite condescension.

His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.

the bruise of the false inhuman war.

We sailed hence, always in much distress, till we came to the land of the lawless and inhuman Cyclopes.

From the top of a small hill came level belchings of yellow flame that caused an inhuman whistling in the air.

They felt that a thousand inimical eyes looked at them through the unshaded front window and the four women, with fear in their hearts, bent their heads and plied their needles.

Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth, nor so inaccessible to all influence of hers; neither was there anything among the other component parts of the cottage inimical to comfort.

In other words, Mr. Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.

But every time she brought up the subject, Melanie deftly steered the conversation into other and innocuous channels.

Her only innovation was painting the pine table a black and orange rather shocking to the Thanatopsis.

However, she was determined to accomplish it, for Rhett was coming to supper and he always noticed and commented upon any innovation of dress or hair.

Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.

It is a fine name to inscribe on my ledgers, and my cashier was quite proud of it when I explained to him who the Cavalcanti were.

On its back was pasted a strip of coarse brown wrapping paper, inscribed in pale homemade ink.

He then called for his horses, drove to the Chamber, and inscribed his name to speak against the budget.

He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.

He leaned back carelessly in his chair and looked into her tense face and his own dark face was inscrutable.

He looked at her oddly, still inscrutable and as she hurried on she could not tell if he were amused or repelled.

It was no good for him to use his insight.

She had a singular insight into life, considering that she had never mixed with it.

And thus, in a few days, by the help of a very faithful memory, I got some insight into their language.

Having died insolvent, it had been purchased, at a bargain, by Legree, who used it, as he did everything else, merely as an implement for money-making.

I pondered the mystery a minute or two; but finding it insolvable, and being certain it could not be of much moment, I dismissed, and soon forgot it.

All the courtesy, all the gentleness Ellen had striven to instill in her had fallen away from her as quickly as leaves fall from trees in the first chill wind of autumn.

I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences.

Golenishtchev never let slip an opportunity of instilling sound ideas about art into Mihailov.

The fact that he had made her an offer, and she had refused him, had placed an insuperable barrier between her and him.

I do not think that even he could now hope to succeed with one of her stamp, and therefore I hope we may find no insuperable difficulty.

In this manner, rocks, precipices and difficulties were surmounted in an incredibly short space, that at another time, and under other circumstances, would have been deemed almost insuperable.

She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before.

Allowing ten seconds to intervene, she rose; paused; and then, as if she had heard the last strain die out, offered Mrs. Giles Oliver her hand.

An intervening elevation of land hid the light.

Amazed and intimidated, she gazed at him in silence.

I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable.

As I spoke, rage sparkled in my eyes; the magistrate was intimidated.

Connie did a mild form of war-work, and consorted with the flannel-trousers Cambridge intransigents, who gently mocked at everything, so far.

The valet bowed and retired, and Albert returned to his inventory.

When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he directed me, although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars.

There's messuages; tenements; napery; cattle; my dowry; an inventory.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me.

All the same, he offered her a soft stream of a queer, inverted sort of love.

Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted.

He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.

The threat sounded awful, but did not alarm Jo, for she knew the irascible old gentleman would never lift a finger against his grandson, whatever he might say to the contrary.

Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.

I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as a relief, notwithstanding its irreconcilability with my latent desire to keep my eye on the coach-office.

And yet the song was irrepressible.

Utterson heaved an irrepressible sigh.

And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face.

We stood with bitter hearts on either side of the mangled body, overwhelmed by this sudden and irrevocable disaster which had brought all our long and weary labours to so piteous an end.

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

However, it is always as well to have a look at him before irrevocably committing yourself into his hands.

I got some of their jabber out of a book.

He has so much worry and work, while I do nothing but jabber to Bea.

The purple darkness was filled with men who lectured and jabbered.

Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts.

One of these was of weak mind, and we did not dare to trust him, and the other was suffering from jaundice, and could not be of any use to us.

At recess Tom continued his flirtation with Amy with jubilant self-satisfaction.

His friend, jubilant and glorified, holding his treasure with vanity, came to him there.

They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.

They soon had a proof, however, that they were still within the jurisdiction of the Saints.

MICAWBER, and the defendant in that cause is the prey of the sheriff having legal jurisdiction in this bailiwick.

Now the Cinque Ports are partially or somehow under the jurisdiction of a sort of policeman or beadle, called a Lord Warden.

I begged Traddles to ask his landlord to walk up.

As I was not able to cut my dinner, the old landlord with a shining bald head did it for me.

Saying which he went out in disdain; and the landlord, having no one to reply upon, found it impracticable to pursue the subject.

I had abundant occupation for my thoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.

Then Roland went away, and the girl stood like a red landmark in the field and waited for her beloved.

This was the first town house one passed driving in from the farm, a landmark which told country people their long ride was over.

His wife was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible.

Ethan, with a touch of his whip, roused the sorrel to a languid trot.

In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything.

Locksley now proceeded to the distribution of the spoil, which he performed with the most laudable impartiality.

Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen.

That's a laudable proceeding on the part of our aunt, at all events,' said Steerforth, when I mentioned it; 'and one deserving of all encouragement.

He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him.

Lily slipped out last among the band of liberated work-women.

Each of us a free man; plates washed by machinery; not an aeroplane to vex us; all liberated; made whole.

Cathy begged that he might be liberated then, as Isabella Linton had no partner: her entreaties were vain, and I was appointed to supply the deficiency.

Easy, pleasant, lucrative home-work for wives: asking people to define their jobs.

It would be long indeed ere you would find so lucrative a post as that you have now the good fortune to fill.

One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable.

His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds.

He was listening with eagerness and much humility to the lurid descriptions of a bearded sergeant.

The sky was a hideous lurid color and great swirls of black smoke went twisting up to hand in billowy clouds above the flames.

There are luscious figs also, and olives in full growth.

It was a clear little stream which ran quite merrily along on its narrow way through the luscious damp greenness.

The elders of the flocks continually led stealthy advances into the front yard, lured on by the green of the grass and the luscious promise of the cape jessamine buds and the zinnia beds.

Archie turned to her, his eye malevolent, and when he spoke there was cold anger in his rusty voice.

Driven by desire and by dread of the malevolent Thing outside, he made his round in the wood, slowly, softly.

She turned and there stood India, white faced, her pale eyes blazing, and Archie, malevolent as a one-eyed parrot.

Something of masquerade I suspected.

with mirth and music the masquerade went on.

On chairs were laid elegant masquerade costumes of blue and white satin.

But when the hunter reached the scene of the ruthless massacre, the ledge was tenanted only by the dead.

As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself.

The massacre of men who were fellow Christians, and of the same Slavonic race, excited sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against the oppressors.

My journey was very melancholy.

The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.

As my sickness quitted me, I was absorbed by a gloomy and black melancholy that nothing could dissipate.

She loved having his body in her charge, absolutely, to the last menial offices.

From his complete inattention to the tidings, you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial.

The conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a menial, who announced that a monk demanded admittance at the postern gate.

Though perhaps that is merely a synonym for mercenary.

It is an advantage to get about in such a case without taking a mercenary into your confidence.

The leaders of the mercenaries received a donation in gold; an argument the most persuasive to their minds, and without which all others would have proved in vain.

The sun had nearly reached the meridian, and his scorching rays fell full on the rocks, which seemed themselves sensible of the heat.

I feared my hopes were too bright to be realised; and I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline.

Open a passage; and I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel from this time till an hour past meridian.

They mistook the mettle of their sons.

Such is my spirit when I am on my mettle.

His horses were full of mettle, and even a little unmanageable.