The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Vocabulary

11 uses

a very audaciously attired young girl

audaciously = boldly and daringly

3 uses

He was minded to augment his pace, but for the third time something barred his way.

augment = increase

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

then rose and said, without exhibiting too much self-complacency at his success,—"The accused has confessed all."

complacency = satisfaction

1 use

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

credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)

4 uses

I denounced you to the official.

denounced = informed against (accused)

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

4 uses

not a week passed which had not its counterfeiter to boil, or its witch to hang, or its heretic to burn,

heretic = someone with opinions or actions most people consider immoral

4 uses

the impetuous gusts of the north wind do not make the traveler lay aside his cloak;

impetuous = sudden and unpredictable

29 uses

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

incessantly = continuously

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

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