10th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy.

The brigands have never been really extirpated from the neighborhood of Rome.

They were yelling, shrill and exultant.

Carol was exultant over this irregular jaunting.

At last an exultant yell went along the quivering line.

Carol had forgotten her facile hopes.

She longed to be able to throw into her voice the facile passion of a light woman.

In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.

If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely.

His plans were facilitated by the news which arrived from Paris.

You see I have a lot of special knowledge which I apply to the problem, and which facilitates matters wonderfully.

After weeks on the ocean, the Shimerdas were famished for fruit.

The weary time dragged on; they slept again, and awoke famished and woe-stricken.

The cannon will warn every one to refuse shelter to a man wandering about naked and famished.

But the lieutenant suppressed the man who wished to fist fight, and the tall captain, flushing at the little fanfare of the red-bearded one, was obliged to look intently at some trees.

Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.

He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting.

The appurtenances of the writing-tables, about which Alexey Alexandrovitch was himself very fastidious, were exceptionally good.

A man has to fend and fettle for the best, and then trust in something beyond himself.

It was the "simple country wedding" to which guests are convoyed in special trains, and from which the hordes of the uninvited have to be fended off by the intervention of the police.

It was a pleasant fertile spot, well wooded, and rich in pasture.

He began with his victory over the Cicons, and how he thence reached the fertile land of the Lotus-eaters.

The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields.

I've knowed him ever since he was a fledgling.

That little flat-topped forage cap Ashley was wearing looked ridiculous.

Then two officers emerged, bowing too, and a stout man with a big beard, wearing a greasy forage cap.

But the only hats obtainable in Atlanta were crudely made wool hats, and they were tackier than the monkey-hat forage caps.

They had been in the ill- starred foray but had separated from the others after the shooting.

The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did call first, but called with obvious infrequency thereafter.

I must have something that I can term exclusively my own by this foray of ours, and I have fixed on the lovely Jewess as my peculiar prize.

Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham.

He believed he had taxed the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this was the result.

Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.

Stowbody and Dawson foreclose every mortgage they can, and put in tenant farmers.

And you, Madam, will kindly refrain from undoing my work behind my back and foreclosing mortgages on any of the people I'm courting or selling them rotten lumber or in other ways insulting them.

He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out.

Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps.

Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine.

The formation went on very slowly.

Twelve aeroplanes in perfect formation like a flight of wild duck came overhead.

Softly, softly, we know our path; but it is good to examine the formation of things.

The more must you fortify yourself, Albert.

Though Connie did want children: if only to fortify her against her sister-in-law Emma.

She would rather die than own the truth; and she hoped, by a little reflection, to fortify herself beyond betraying it.

She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.

She has fostered my independence by professedly indulging my love for liberty.

This gave her a sense of reflected superiority, and she did not need Mrs. Bart's comments on the family frumps and misers to foster her naturally lively taste for splendour.

I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank.

Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way with him that was very taking.

The action was more frank and fearless than any I was habituated to indulge in: somehow it pleased her.

Admitting that he might be wrong, a frenzied declamation of the kind would turn him into a worm.

And every hour his soul grew blacker, every hour he dreamed new dreams of vengeance, of defiance, of raging, frenzied hate.

She was born in the middle of a week when frenzied excitement gripped Atlanta and the air was tense with expectation of disaster.

Meg sighed, and turned to the frostbitten garden again.

"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.

shouted furious and violent voices on all sides.

She answered him, and all at once got up, furious.

Looks and faces were even more violent and furious than their words.

Tom said he could furnish it, and he did.

He assured me that nothing would be easier than to furnish all I desired.

Danglars, coming out of his cabin, who will furnish you with every particular.

They fled to the other end of the court like a herd of cattle maddened by the gadfly in early summer when the days are at their longest.

The wind, that seemed to blow as they drove, dropped when the carriage stood still; gadflies settled on the steaming horses that angrily shook them off.

It removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two.

The bed was tumbled and unmade and he sat on it, unshaven and suddenly gaunt, endlessly smoking.

Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.

It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.

But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself.

Everything in camp was drenched, the campfire as well; for they were but heedless lads, like their generation, and had made no provision against rain.

He noticed her involuntary gesture, and smiled.

With a frantic gesture he rushed out of the room.

The grim beadle now made a gesture with his staff.

The image of Clerval was forever before me, ghastly and murdered.

There was wild and ghastly scenery all around her, and a home and comfort nowhere.

A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me.

She would venture very gingerly on that experiment.

Pork beamed under the praise and gingerly rubbed his bandaged leg.

The conductor took his nickel gingerly, with the tips of his fingers, and then left him with the platform to himself.

Howsoever carefully she looked she could see nothing but thickly growing, glossy, dark green leaves.

He took her for an acquaintance, and lifted his glossy hat above his bald, glossy head, and then perceived his mistake.

Just then, a handsome young man, with bright eyes, black hair, and glossy mustache, respectfully bowed to Madame de Villefort.

My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.

At first he was like a wild beast that has glutted itself; he was in a dull stupor of satisfaction.

I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.

Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.

Ben Weatherstaff put his gnarled hand up and passed it over his eyes and over his forehead and then he did answer in a queer shaky voice.

As soon as she was beneath the gnarled arms of the cedars, she knew she was safe from observation from the house and she slowed her swift pace.

It is an attachment to govern his whole life.

She was not a Vincent de Paul, to govern and mold a people.

And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.

The face of the town was set against her as stonily as granite.

She went up the walk somehow, the arm she was holding as hard and steady as granite, communicating to her some courage.

The aperture of the rock had been closed with stones, then this stucco had been applied, and painted to imitate granite.

On Sundays he had earned the right to graze in the pasture and rest.

Nor white whale, nor man, nor fiend, can so much as graze old Ahab in his own proper and inaccessible being.

In more fertile spots the observer would have come to the conclusion that one of those great herds of bisons which graze upon the prairie land was approaching him.

Mrs. Fisher made a slight grimace.

She smiled assentingly, and then made a slight grimace.

Sambo was a full black, of great size, very lively, voluble, and full of trick and grimace.

I saw her haggard, listening face distinctly.

Any one might have seen in her haggard face that there was no suppression or evasion so far.

My haggard and wild appearance awoke intense alarm, but I answered no question, scarcely did I speak.

Standing, for the most part, on the hallowed precincts of the quarter-deck, they were careful not to speak or rustle their feet.

I could wish the stairs were handsome.

His wife was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible.

I shall very soon think him handsome, Elinor, if I do not now.

It was the handwriting of Anna Karenina.

I eagerly hope that you will confirm this intelligence soon in your own handwriting.

To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness.

Well, of course it can be explained; your father may have forgotten to date his signature, and someone else may have dated it haphazard before they knew of his death.

But the little man suggested that the architecture of Gopher Prairie was haphazard, and that it was sottish to let the lake-front be monopolized by the cinder-heaped wall of the railroad embankment.

He thought that he must break from the ranks and harangue his comrades.

The eyes of the neighbors were expectantly upon him as they settled themselves in easier positions for a long harangue.

The effect of such an harangue, delivered in the nervous language and with the emphatic manner of a Huron orator, could scarcely be mistaken.

After a time of worry and harassment, she decided to go to Wragby.

My dear count, you cannot imagine how my mind is harassed.

Joe harassed him awhile, and then he got away and crossed back again.

I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty rivalry.

He expressed no regret for what he had done which satisfied her; his style was not penitent, but haughty.

He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting.

He was gone and the memory of his stricken face would haunt her till she died.

He seemed in communion with the genius of the haunt: with his eye he bade farewell to something.

No ghost rose from that shallow grave to haunt her in the long nights when she lay awake, too tired to sleep.

She wished fervently that Uncle Peter were with her so he could go down to headquarters and learn the news.

Tom was therefore elevated to a place with the Judge and the other elect, and the great news was announced from headquarters.

A salute of twenty-four guns was fired on receipt of good news from Washington, and a dress parade took place at headquarters.

But she did not heed him, and would not agree to anything.

The bailiff said that he had said so a long while ago, but no heed had been paid him.

My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.

If there were a trace of humanity left in her, she ought not to wish for it herself.

No man of common humanity, no man who had any value for his character, could be capable of it.

See that she is cared for as her condition demands, and you have done all that God and humanity require of you.

I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.

When my hunger was appeased, I directed my steps towards the well-known path that conducted to the cottage.

There is nothing to eat over there, and the oldest boy came to tell me they were suffering hunger and cold.

Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone.

Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil.

The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.

But the way was rugged, broken, and in spots nearly impassable.

Gulf impassable, and a quiet sort of resentment on either side.

The barrier betwixt himself and brother he considered impassable.

He saw enough in her face to impel him to take her hand and hold it while he said his lingering good night.

It was the certainty of this fact that impelled me to offer the hint.

It was what I remotely dreaded when I was first impelled to stay away from England.