Matching Pairs (ENG C1) ch.2Online version Vocabulary from Sense and Sensibility chapter II and III. by Georgios Michalopoulos 1 housekeeping "Their housekeeping will be nothing at all. They will have no carriage, no horses, and hardly any servants;" 2 discretion " If I were you, whatever I did should be done at my own discretion entirely." 3 to take pains "Mrs. Dashwood now took pains to get acquainted with him." 4 earnestness "an earnestness which gave Elinor far more pain" 5 to stipulate "He did not stipulate for any particular sum" 6 partiality "It was enough for her that he appeared to be amiable, that he loved her daughter, and that Elinor returned the partiality." 7 unobtrusive "She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it." 8 intimacy "Some mothers might have encouraged the intimacy from motives of interest, for Edward Ferrars was the eldest son of a man who had died very rich; " 9 to afford "but we are not to think of their expectations: the question is, what you can afford to do." 10 diffident "He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open affectionate heart." 11 to point out "I will listen to no cavil, unless you can point out any other method of understanding the affair as satisfactory as this." 12 annuity "people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them" 13 contempt "The contempt which she had, very early in their acquaintance, felt for her daughter-in-law, was very much increased" 14 to militate "even that quietness of manner which militated against all her established ideas of what a young man’s address ought to be" 15 disinclination " she dared not explain the motive of her own disinclination for going to London." 16 amiable "It implies every thing amiable. " 17 trifling "except a trifling sum, the whole of his fortune depended on the will of his mother." 18 barouche "till one of these superior blessings could be attained, it would have quieted her ambition to see him driving a barouche." unwillingness to do or believe something to try very hard to do something a right to receive amounts of money regularly over the remaining life of one beneficiary. sincerity; seriousness to be a powerful or conclusive factor in preventing. to call attention to; to identity, to indicate friendly, amicable to require something as a condition of an agreement. wagon attention, prudence, responsibility favoritism, fondness hesitant; unconfident the chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning (in the text: the expenses associated with maintaining a house). keeping a low profile closeness between people to be able or rich enough. disdain, disrespect insignificant, worthless
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