Jane Eyre - Vocab Chapters 29-30

Emaciated:

• -adj.

1. abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease

Pallid:

• -adj.

1. pale; faint or deficient in color; wan
2. lacking in vitality or interest

Quiescent:

• -adj.

1. being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless

Remuneration:

• -noun

1. to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc

Elysium:

• -noun

1. any similarly conceived abode or state of the dead
2. any place or state of perfect happiness; paradise
3. the abode of the death after death

Morass:

• -noun

1. a tract of low, soft, wet ground
2. a marsh or bog
3. marshy ground
4. any confusing or troubling situation, especially one from which it is difficult to free oneself; entaglement