12th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

The dreadful secret of the murder was a chronic misery.

I lived in a state of chronic uneasiness respecting my behavior to Joe.

It was clear to me at a glance that he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease.

The conduct of a widow must be twice as circumspect as that of a matron.

We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect.

For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb.

Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion.

But, morning once more brightened my view, and I extended my clemency to Biddy, and we dropped the subject.

Do not you recollect, I came about six weeks ago to plead for clemency, as I come to-day to plead for justice.

Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.

They seemed cognizant of his meaning.

The day came when his pale blue eyes, perfectly cognizant of his surroundings, fell upon Carreen sitting beside him, telling her rosary beads, the morning sun shining through her fair hair.

On his right arm was a silver plate, which, instead of bearing, as usual, the cognizance or badge of the baron to whose family he belonged, had barely the word SHERWOOD engraved upon it.

My colleague, Mr. Lestrade, is here.

This professor was very unlike his colleague.

He is, doubtless, come to prove the perfect innocence of our colleague.

Your secret is safe with me; but pardon me if I express some surprise at so unnecessary a communication.

I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.

Between THEM no subject is finished, no communication is even made, till it has been made at least twenty times over.

He and Mr. Elsing are under arrest for complicity in a Klan raid at Shantytown tonight.

She felt that it was too simple a solution of too complicated a problem.

Altogether there were a great many most complicated matters to be considered and arranged.

But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops.

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.

Danglars felt the irony and compressed his lips.

His lips were sternly compressed, and his eyes looked away from her.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

I had no conception that vessels ever came so far north and was astounded at the sight.

I traversed the streets without any clear conception of where I was or what I was doing.

would indeed find it difficult to form the faintest conception of my heart-rending situation.

Nothing could be more conclusive.

It is, nevertheless, conclusive to my mind.

The conference was neither so short nor so conclusive as the lady had designed.

Happily for the success of this delicate adventure, he had to deal with ears but little practised in the concord of sweet sounds, or the miserable effort would infallibly have been detected.

The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on.

Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards, to express his concurrence in this estimation of me.

Lady Bertram made no objection; and every one concerned in the going was forward in expressing their ready concurrence, excepting Edmund, who heard it all and said nothing.

The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on.

Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards, to express his concurrence in this estimation of me.

Lady Bertram made no objection; and every one concerned in the going was forward in expressing their ready concurrence, excepting Edmund, who heard it all and said nothing.

A woman of Spanish blood does not condone such an injury so lightly.

Still I recognized that justice must be done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonment in the eyes of the law.

You must not confound my meaning.

No, no, my dear fellow, do not confound our plans.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

He could conjure up nothing of sufficient point.

But until then, I conjure you, do not mention or allude to it.

I conjure you by everything you hold dear to answer a few questions.

Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life and my endeavours for contentment.

What we did had a consecration of its own.

And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.

He is a lecturer and a consultant, but he does not care for general practice, which distracts him from his literary work.

The sisters were having a consultation about nursing when Anna called.

The two notaries were holding a consultation as to the best means of proceeding with the affair.

She saw in this a contemptuous reference to her occupations.

Casting contemptuous glances at them, Scarlett thought that they looked like a clump of fat crows.

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

She had gambled on the continuance of the Bullock regime and she had lost.

He promised a continuance of his favors, and admonished them to be grateful.

A continuance in a place where everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind.

You have asserted nothing contradictory to what Mr Elliot appeared to be some years ago.

Her face was captivating by reason of a certain frankness of expression and a contradictory subtle play of features.

By late afternoon the first news came, but it was uncertain, contradictory, frightening, brought as it was by men wounded in the early hours of the battle.

In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes.

I was at the coach office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was he, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance.

I was once acquainted with him, Aunt, and when I saw him today I thought I should prefer his van to any conveyance of a stranger.

Mr. Micawber was uncommonly convivial.

It is a most refreshing, convivial, beautiful object to behold.

As the punch disappeared, Mr. Micawber became still more friendly and convivial.

A violent convulsion attacked the old man.

I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.

Again the shiver went through him, like a convulsion, and she laid her arm round his shoulder.

If we're all the raw stuff of the cosmic effects, one would rather be the fire that tempers a sword than the fish that dyes a purple cloak.

It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.

As we sat at the table, Otto Fuchs and I kept stealing covert glances at each other.

A thick wood skirted the meadow-land in another direction; but they could not have gained that covert for the same reason.

He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.

My worldly affairs began to wear a gloomy appearance, and I was pressed for money by more than one creditor.

It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of affection.

Those are the crucial points upon which the case depends.

This speech was one of the crucial blows of Connie's life.

It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into "Four legs good, two legs bad" at crucial moments in Snowball's speeches.

The two coffins were placed on trestles previously prepared for their reception in the right-hand crypt belonging to the Saint-Meran family.

"There," said the sentinel, pointing over his shoulder to a spacious crypt, hollowed out of the rock, the lights from which shone into the passage through the large arched openings.

Those are the antecedents, and the culmination.

It was like bells rippling up and up to a culmination.

It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening.

Their cumulative effect is certainly considerable, and yet each of them is quite possible in itself.

The beaming sight, and the penetrating warmth, seemed to breed in him a cumulative cheerfulness, which soon amounted to delight.

You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.

Her hind-quarters were a little drooping, and in her fore-legs, and still more in her hind-legs, there was a noticeable curvature.

The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.

In those cynical words there was indeed a grain of truth.

She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.

The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.

In those cynical words there was indeed a grain of truth.

She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.

With St. Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners; but I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me.

It was a girl, and not to be daunted.

The lion was daunted; the avenger was conquered.

He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread.

It is the Lady Eva Blackwell, the most beautiful debutante of last season.

Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.

Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.

The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.

I assented to this proposal, in default of being able to suggest anything else.

They have been in her family as servants; and, in default of any other school to receive them, she has, in many cases, had them instructed in a family school, with her own children.

Somebody broke down in a piece of knitting, and no one but Sophy was able to put the defaulter in the right direction.

So, in deference to public opinion, he skipped all mention of Purgatory.

The clerks and copyists all rose, greeting him with good-humored deference.

The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention.

You are extremely deficient in your facts.

Bingley was by no means deficient, but Darcy was clever.

Though deficient in neither of these qualities, he had met an enemy every way his equal.

He had now come to the mouth of the very defile in which he had left them.

To the south stretched the defile, or rather broken plain, so often mentioned.

He drew up his pistol, examined it, pointed it towards that point in the defile where the first man would appear.

The public had definitely expressed its desire.

This definitely expressed purpose astonished Levin.

The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now.

In fact, Mammy had spent her time deflating her conceit.

She was very deft, with a soft, lingering touch, a little slow.

Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.

He was beside her quickly and his deft fingers untied the wide bow under her chin.

As is usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within an ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray.

He swore by all possible deities.

In a dim light, and with a slight rearrangement of her hair, her general figure might have stood for that of either of the higher female deities.

Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.

Then he delineated a long and painful path, amid rocks and water-courses.

In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.

Digging and delving we break with the share of the plough the clod.

Digging and delving, ploughing and sowing they were singing, but the wind blew their words away.

And, after many, many years, a new grave was delved, near an old and sunken one, in that burial-ground beside which King's Chapel has since been built.

He will think I am demented, no doubt.

The lake there is eight feet deep, and you can imagine our feelings when we saw that the trail of the poor demented girl came to an end at the edge of it.

"I've heard she's partially demented," said Arobin.

But with all their best efforts, the packers were demoralized.

Now, the sight of so many buildings and people completed Prissy's demoralization.

She went downstairs calmly, with her old demure bearing, at dinner-time.

Her hair was demure, low on her forehead with a parting and a coiled braid.

Again, another reminded her of children at play, and still another of nothing on earth but a demure lady stroking a cat.