Vocabulary Word
Word: expostulation
Definition: protest; remonstrance; reasoning with someone to correct or dissuade; V. expostulate
Definition: protest; remonstrance; reasoning with someone to correct or dissuade; V. expostulate
Sentences Containing 'expostulation'
In his expostulation he dropped his cleaner hand -LRB- perhaps accidentally, perhaps not -RRB- upon the joker's heart.
Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.
Of Catulus, not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust, but to strive to reduce him to his former disposition: freely and heartily to speak well of all my masters upon any occasion, as it is reported of Domitius, and Athenodotus: and to love my children with true affection.
More Vocab Words
::: inflated - exaggerated; pompous; enlarged (with air or gas)::: malefactor - evildoer; criminal
::: incorporate - introduce something into a larger whole; include; embody; give material form to; ADJ.
::: malapropos - inappropriate; ADV.
::: shuffle - mix together; jumble; move (something) from one place to another; slide (the feet) along the ground while walking; Ex. shuffle papers from one pile to another; N.
::: enfranchise - admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote); CF. franchise
::: submissive - willing to obey orders; yielding; timid
::: clime - climate
::: nurse - suckle; take care of (as a nurse); bear in mind; Ex. nursing mother; Ex. nurse a hope/grudge against someone
::: falter - hesitate; weaken in purpose or action; walk or move unsteadily through weakness; N.
