Middlemarch vocabulary

13 rare vocabulary words

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13 [rare] words
rebus
Euxine
Mawworm
leveret
con
bashaw
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leveret

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a young hare

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They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue. The bearded man's revolver cracked and the looking-glass at the back of the parlour starred and came smashing and tinkling down.

H.G. Wells. The Invisible Man.
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Your type is not a lamb, it’s a sucking leveret.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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