11th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

I want to rehabilitate myself, Mrs Helmer; I want to get on; and in that your husband must help me.

You want me to go and see her, to ask her here, and to rehabilitate her in society; but do understand that I cannot do so.

To Northern capital and Afro-American labor the South owes its rehabilitation.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

The iron bars were a relic of the old regime, and no one had ever thought of dislodging them.

Julie saw the means offered of carrying off her precious relic, which Monte Cristo had forgotten.

It was for me to guard this sisterly affection with religious care.

But he had religious scruples, which hindered the execution of such a plan.

Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in his mood.

His remembrance can be overcome by no change of circumstances or opinions.

From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then was in height and proportion.

He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

The last mile I performed on foot, having dismissed the chaise and driver with the double remuneration I had promised.

Mr. Gradgrind overwhelmed him with thanks, of course; and hinted as delicately as he could, at a handsome remuneration in money.

All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy.

As he came nearer, she thought she might be the first to rend him.

There was a slight rending sound.

In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things.

Warrior after warrior enlisted in the dance, until all of any renown and authority were numbered in its mazes.

We are the people of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, who has won infinite renown throughout the whole world, by sacking so great a city and killing so many people.

But meanwhile, you have time to make some small reparation for the injury you have wrought.

If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.

The duty done, and act of reparation performed, which can alone enable me to contemplate my fellow mortal, I shall be known no more.

But that man said he did not repent of what he had done, Joseph.

Now my desires were complied with, and it would, indeed, have been folly to repent.

Torvald, you will repent not having let me stay, even if it were only for half an hour.

The baron took the pen and signed, then the representative.

It was evident that the fiery temper of the Baskervilles was not extinct in this their last representative.

They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee lap suppers, and they regarded Carol as their literary and artistic representative.

But the first was repugnant to him.

I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her.

The doors of the two bedrooms faced each other across the narrow upper landing, and to-night it was peculiarly repugnant to him that Mattie should see him follow Zeena.

As Bertuccio was leaving the room to give the requisite orders, Baptistin opened the door: he held a letter on a silver waiter.

This same person, with almost incredible patience and perseverance, had contrived to provide himself with tools requisite for so unparalleled an attempt.

This one is built against the solid rock, and it would take ten experienced miners, duly furnished with the requisite tools, as many years to perforate it.

Alas, resistance was far from my thoughts.

Elinor made no resistance that was not easily overcome.

I made no resistance; I was no longer master of my senses.

They both eagerly and resolutely declined her invitation.

She walked across the drawing room and went resolutely to him.

It seemed as though he knew both what he was and for what he was living, for he acted and lived resolutely and without hesitation.

Her resolution was formed as she read.

But then at other times I have not resolution enough for it.

I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution.

He was resplendent in new clothes and a greatcoat with a dashing cape thrown back from his heavy shoulders.

The flag was sometimes eaten and lost in this mass of vapor, but more often it projected, sun-touched, resplendent.

The Snow Queen might come back as soon as she liked; there stood his discharge written in resplendent masses of ice.

Because then I have no responsibility.

Here was another ruin, the responsibility of which came partly home to her.

The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled.

She then peeped round to where I sat; so stern a neighbour was too restrictive to him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.

In the new public law courts he disliked the restrictions laid on the lawyers conducting cases.

She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed.

Marianne was going to retort, but she remembered her promises, and forbore.

But Mr. Peggotty made no such retort, only answering with another entreaty to Mrs. Gummidge to cheer up.

She flushed to her temples, but the extremity of her need checked the retort on her lip and she continued to face him composedly.

The revel was at its height when a priest.

Thomasin noticed all these, and was delighted that the May revel was to be so near.

I had unchained an enemy among them whose joy it was to shed their blood and to revel in their groans.

While on their way, they would make the dense old woods, for miles around, reverberate with their wild songs, revealing at once the highest joy and the deepest sadness.

My only answer was my own voice reverberating in a rolling echo from the cliffs around me.

And iron clanked with a huge reverberating clank, and huge lorries shook the earth, and whistles screamed.

When he saw Eumaeus and Ulysses he reviled them with outrageous and unseemly language, which made Ulysses very angry.

He came so unexpectedly that none of us knew him, not even the older ones among us, and we reviled him and threw things at him.

The poor, as we have already said, whom she sought out to be the objects of her bounty, often reviled the hand that was stretched forth to succour them.

You are as jealous of Miss Murdstone as it is possible for a ridiculous creature to be.

To this hour I am undecided whether it was upon the whole the wisest thing I could have done, or the most ridiculous.

I knew, from the first moment when I saw her with that poor dear blessed baby of a mother of yours, that she was the most ridiculous of mortals.

You didn't mean a word of all this rigmarole.

But, determined to build himself a monument of a reputation quickly, he used any handy rubble in the making.

Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay.

They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage.

Mr. Dick had regularly assisted at our councils, with a meditative and sage demeanour.

To her the conference closed as satisfactorily as to him.

The affair being so satisfactorily concluded, Hester Prynne, with Pearl, departed from the house.

The Councillor imagined it was the cholera that was meant, which people made so much fuss about; and the discourse passed off satisfactorily enough.

Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives.

Because they scarce ever had their stomachs full in their lives.

Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.

Miss Melly will believe any plausible scoundrel.

My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.

There was another rapid glance at the house, and supposing himself unseen, the scoundrel had the impudence to embrace her.

They were convalescing slowly and lay scrawny and weak in their bed.

A damned mule, she repeated, looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.

It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.

Now, I promised to get the money on the security of a bond which I drew up.

He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed real security.

And there a merchant will get three acres of land, worth ten roubles, as security for the loan of one rouble.

His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart.

He was recalled from wit to wisdom, not by any reproof of hers, but by his own sensibility.

But it would have broke MY heart, had I loved him, to hear him read with so little sensibility.

He never looked so serene as he did then.

A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.

The evening was warm and serene, and we prolonged our walk farther than usual.

The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on.

All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds.

One could not stand and watch very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog squeal of the universe.

Then I recalled where I was, and how situated.

Thus situated, my only resource was to drive before the wind.

It was a handsome modern building, well situated on rising ground.

And you can bet Mrs. Kennicott is smart, even if she is skittish.

Haley's horse, which was a skittish young colt, winced, and bounced, and pulled hard at his halter.

Ivan jumped down and took the quiet, sleek horse by the bridle.

The horses harnessed to the ploughs and harrows were sleek and fat.

Then he heard the rattle of the wheels and the snort of the sleek horse close by him.

Aunt Bessie Smail sleuthed out this anarchy.

This specimen of the Miss Steeles was enough.

She had finished her breakfast, so I permitted her to give a specimen of her accomplishments.

She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring.

But she was a deliberate and joyous spendthrift in her preparations for her first party, the housewarming.

It might be spiritual and imparted to him by angelical ministrations.

Yet, had little Pearl never come to her from the spiritual world, it might have been far otherwise.

These, perhaps, if more distinctly heard, might have been only a grosser medium, and have clogged the spiritual sense.

In any case, it is a matter of their own personal squalor, and nothing to do with anybody else.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

She was a woman who could not be taught, it is said, though she had a crude natural force which carried with people whose feelings were accessible and whose taste was not squeamish.

Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace--or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons--rid of my provincial squeamishness forever.

For a time my brain went stagnant.

The kennel was stagnant and filthy.

The stagnant pools were all like amber.

This was not the repose of actual stagnation, but the apparent repose of incredible slowness.

The complexity of Petersburg, as a rule, had a stimulating effect on him, rousing him out of his Moscow stagnation.

One point was evident in this; that she had been existing in a suppressed state, and not in one of languor, or stagnation.

Miss Bea was a stalwart, corn-colored, laughing young woman, and she was bored by farm-work.

We had all risen to our feet, our prisoner breathing hard, with a stalwart constable on each side of him.

He banged at the door, and presently the heads of the old man and his two stalwart sons were thrust from windows.

You get good lines, perhaps, but no stamina.

March never had any stamina, was the cheerful reply.

It was almost impossible to obtain these small luxuries now--ladies were wearing hand-whittled wooden hairpins and covering acorns with cloth for buttons--and Pitty lacked the moral stamina to refuse them.

brilliant throng that filled the stately halls of Count.

To this lady he presented me as his mother, and she gave me a stately welcome.

Then Phemius took his lyre and set them all longing for sweet song and stately dance.

I could not eat, I could not sit still, I could not continue steadfast to anything.

A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.

The count took out a small quantity of this with a gilt spoon, and offered it to Morrel, fixing a long steadfast glance upon him.

Her stealthy paws tread the very hall.

You have done a stealthy and unbecoming action, Mr. Copperfield.

The shadows lengthened and crept out like stealthy, grotesque monsters across the grass.

But the task might take years to accomplish, even if she continued to stint herself to the utmost; and meanwhile her pride would be crushed under the weight of an intolerable obligation.

It fell to his lot, now, to stipulate for secrecy.

He did not stipulate for any particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do.

Still more so, by the stipulation of implicit confidence which I beg to impose.

I felt, as I looked upon that supple figure, alive with nervous energy, that it was indeed a strenuous day that awaited us.

Levin, looking at the tiny, pitiful creature, made strenuous efforts to discover in his heart some traces of fatherly feeling for it.

I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits.

Only to stretch my legs a little.

I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.

Sergey Ivanovitch liked to stretch himself on the grass in the sun, and to lie so, basking and chatting lazily.

As he hastened, there passed through his mind pictures of stupendous conflicts.

I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene.

It was such a stupendous thing to know for certain that she put her hair in papers.

their sublime Shaksperean Spectacle entitled The Balcony Scene in.

Morrel raised his two hands to heaven with an expression of resignation and sublime gratitude.

These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving.