Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit Glossary

Eternal

Living forever

Afflict

Cause pain or suffering to

Forlorn

Sad and lonely

Vengeance

Punishment exacted for harm caused

Assured

Confident

Interpose

Place or insert between one thing and another.

Fragile

Easily broken or damaged

Verdure

Greenness, especially of flourishing vegetation

Interminable

Unending or ceaseless

Obtrusive

Showing a tendency or disposition to intrude or enter into the discussions of others

Aperture

Opening or entrance

Viands

Items of food

Consummate

Of the utmost or highest degree

Austere

Severe, harsh, or unadorned.

Inexorable

Unyielding or unwilling to be moved.

Doleful

Sorrowful or depressed

Worsted

A type of wool cloth

Bier

A frame or stand on which a corpse or coffin is laid before burial

Rusk

A type of sweetened biscuit

Acerbity

Harshness or severity