Sons of Fortune

by Jeffrey Archer

repercussions

reverberate

apprehensive.

exuberance.

egalitarian

patrician.

patrician

redundant

‘Knives and forks are not airplanes and shouldn’t remain in mid-air longer than is necessary,’ she reminded him. He had no way of knowing that

‘Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not the strength of your arm; Oliver Wendell Holmes, if I remember correctly.’

austere

contemporaries.

disgorged

inscrutability.

not to stand up and be counted when an injustice had been done was the

prolonged standing ovation.

succour

Machiavelli’s

unfolded the single sheet of paper, and stared at the contents in disbelief.

disingenuous

predicament.’

quartermaster,

debauched husk,

adrenalin

cum laude.’

‘Magna cum laude

substantiated,

intrigued.

dissipate

circumspect

‘The law so often is, as Mr Charles Dickens would have us believe, an ass, and perhaps more

important, indiscriminately imperfect. I have no brief for counsel who look only

justice be done”.’

disdainful.

redundant?’

culpable

unpretentious

“you’re sailing under false colours”.

irremediable scar.’

phials

curare

horrendous

promiscuity.’

recluse

persuasive

venom

indulgence

betrothal.

huddle,

‘Sustained,’