Jane Eyre - Vocab Chapters 15-16

Assuage:

• -verb

1. to make milder or less sever; relieve; ease; mitigate
2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve
3. to soothe, calm, or mollify

Lugubrious:

• -adj.

1. mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner

Stupefy:

• -verb

1. to put in a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor
2. to stun, as with a narcotic, a shock, or a strong emotion
3. to overwhelm with amazement; astound; astonish

Harangue:

• -noun

1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe
2. a long, passionate, and vehement speech, especially one delivered before a public gathering
3. any long, pompous speech or writing of a tedious hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse