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Original post : //Languidly//- I chose this word because I didn't know the meaning of it. It is used in the second page of chapter 33 while Pip is describing Estella. He says "When she left off-and she did not laugh languidly, but with real enjoyment."

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Definition (I found 3, but from the quote used above, the second defintion fits the best) : 1) "lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow" 2) lacking in spirit or intrest; listless; indifferent" 3) "drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue; faint" - [] ======

Part of Speech/Prounciation: adjective / (lang-gwid)
Word Origin (history) : 1590–1600;  <  Latin  // languidus // faint. - []

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I chose this picture of Kurt Cobain (the lead singer of Nirvana who suffered from serious depression and drug abuse) because he clearly shows a "blank," "spirt-less" smile, much like how Pip described Estella's smile in the quote used above.======

Synonym List : inactive, inert, sluggish, torpid, spiritless, weak, feeble, weary, exhausted, debilitated.

Sentence : When he turned back to stare at his bride, both their smiles were anything but **//languid.//**

Quote from somewhere else : "Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore the tone of languid nature." - English Poet William Cowper. found at []