Pride And Prejudice· Chapter 23

incredulous: not wanting or not able to believe something, and usually showing this.

eg. He unfolded the matter, —to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous.

boisterous: noisy, energetic, and rough

eg. Mrs. Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed, —

forbearing: patient and forgiving

eg. He listened to all their impertinence with the most forbearing courtesy.

be incumbent on/upon someone: (formal) to be necessary for someone

eg. Elizabeth, feeling it incumbent on her to relieve him from so unpleasant a situation, now put herself forward to confirm his account, by mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself.

barbarous: extremely cruel or unpleasant, or failing to reach acceptable social standards

eg. She herself had been barbarously used by them all.

rectitude: honesty and correct moral behaviour

eg. Her disappointment in Charlotte made her turn with fonder regard to her sister, of whose rectitude and delicacy she was sure her opinion could never be shaken, and for whose happiness she grew daily more anxious, as Bingley had now been gone a week, and nothing was heard of his return.

Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed Mrs. Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood.

tidings: news 

incense: to cause someone to be extremely angry

scandalous: making people shocked and upset

contradict: (of people) to say the opposite of what someone else has said

falsehood: lying

recur: to happen many times or to happen again

eg. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive of Jane's happiness, and so dishonourable to the stability of her lover, she could not prevent its frequently recurring.

odious: extremely unpleasant and causing or deserving hate

eg. The sight of Miss Lucas was odious to her.

abhorrence: a feeling of hating something or someone

eg. As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence.