The Prisoner of Zenda (43 page)

inordinate
ADJ
without order. To-day inordinate means ‘excessive'.
Though yet untutored and
inordinate
(
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth)

intellectuals
NOUN
here intellectuals means the minds (of the workmen)
those instructions they give being too refined for the intellectuals of their workmen
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

interview
NOUN
meeting
By our first strange and fatal interview
(
On His Mistress
by John Donne)

jacks
NOUN
jacks are rods for turning a spit over a fire
It was a small bit of pork suspended from the kettle hanger by a string passed through a large door key, in a
way known to primitive housekeepers unpossessed of jacks
(
Silas Marner
by George Eliot)

jews-harp
NOUN
a jews-harp is a small, metal, musical instrument that is played by the mouth
A jews-harp's plenty good enough for a rat
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)

jorum
NOUN
a large bowl
while Miss Skiffins brewed such a jorum of tea, that the pig in the back premises became strongly excited
(
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens)

jostled
VERB
jostled means bumped or pushed by someone or some people
being jostled himself into the kennel
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

keepsake
NOUN
a keepsake is a gift which reminds someone of an event or of the person who gave it to them.
books and ornaments they had in their boudoirs at home: keepsakes that different relations had presented to them
(
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë)

kenned
VERB
kenned means knew
though little kenned the lamplighter that he had any company but Christmas!
(
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens)

kennel
NOUN
kennel means gutter, which is the edge of a road next to the pavement, where rain water collects and flows away
being jostled himself into the kennel
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

knock-knee
ADJ
knock-knee means slanted, at an angle.
LOT 1 was marked in whitewashed knock-knee letters on the brewhouse
(
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens)

ladylike
ADJ
to be ladylike is to behave in a polite, dignified and graceful way
No, winking isn't ladylike
(
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott)