The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Vocabulary

1 use

On the other hand, he was assiduous at the great and the small schools of the Rue Saint Jean de Beauvais. The first pupil whom the Abbé de Saint Pierre de Val, at the moment of beginning his reading on canon law, always perceived, glued to a pillar of the school Saint-Vendregesile, opposite his rostrum, was Claude Frollo, armed with his horn ink-bottle, biting his pen, scribbling on his threadbare knee, and, in winter, blowing on his fingers.

assiduous = diligent (showing care and persistent effort)

11 uses

a very audaciously attired young girl

audaciously = boldly and daringly

7 uses

This brown-skinned, broad-shouldered priest, hitherto condemned to the austere virginity of the cloister, was quivering and boiling in the presence of this night scene of love and voluptuousness.

austere = self-denying

48 uses

the house, which is simple and thoroughly bourgeois

bourgeois = typical of the middle class

12 uses

the capricious regulations regarding the public highways

capricious = unpredictable

1 use

What more was needed, simple and credulous as she was?

credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)

8 uses

All this only increased the derision and hooting.

derision = disrespect — typically while laughing at or making fun of

17 uses

Down to that day, he had known only humiliation, disdain for his condition, disgust for his person.

disdain = a lack of respect

98 uses

That edifice is colossal.

edifice = building

29 uses

It was this fixed idea which returned incessantly, which tortured him, which ate into his brain,

incessantly = continuously

2 uses

Queue-en-Brie was a very insipid place to stay at then, a village of farriers, and cow-girls with chapped hands, a long line of poor dwellings and thatched cottages,...

insipid = dull (uninteresting and unimpactful)

152 uses

I see that you agree with Monsieur de Boucicaut.

Monsieur = Mr. (in French)

2 meanings, 2 uses

13 uses

The solemn lines of that architecture, ... the serene and pious thoughts which emanated, so to speak, from all the pores of that stone, acted upon her without her being aware of it.

pious = holy (religiously moral)

2 meanings, 2 uses

2 uses

The spectacle which presented itself to his eyes, when his ragged escort finally deposited him at the end of his trip, was not fitted to bear him back to poetry, even to the poetry of hell. It was more than ever the prosaic and brutal reality of the tavern.

prosaic = lacking anything unusual

52 uses

The young girl had recognized the spiteful recluse.

recluse = a person who has withdrawn from society (avoids contact with others)

4 uses

All at once his deep-set eye assumed so sagacious and penetrating an expression, that Gringoire felt himself, so to speak, searched to the bottom of the soul by that glance.

sagacious = wise