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avado and gasconade Bravado: Boasting or threatening behavior; bold display of courage intended to express defiance; often to conceal inward timidity. Gasconade: Extravagant boasting; vain and glorious fiction about self. “Just now, when everyone is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labor therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry form the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savors a little of bravado and gasconade.” Stevenson, “An Apology for Idlers”
hackneyed Hired; kept for hire; overly-used, no longer fresh or lively or interesting; so habitual that disgust follows. “There is sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.” Stevenson, “An Apology for Idlers”
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hawking To carry about from place
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piqued Offended, irritated, excite
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exploit To utilize for one‟s own
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caprice A sudden change of mind wi
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prognostic Foreshadows; gives omin
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paramour A person beloved by one o
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lasciviousness Inciting lust; want
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sequestrated Separated; cut off fr
Page 19 and 20: ostentation A display intended to
Page 21 and 22: aillery Good-humor ridicule; bante
Page 23 and 24: speculation Faculty or power of se
Page 25 and 26: fortune The chance or luck (good o
Page 27 and 28: ecrimination To bring a charge aga
Page 29 and 30: fantastical Irrational; baseless;
Page 31 and 32: copiously Plentifully; abundantly;
Page 33 and 34: superannuated Disqualified or inca
Page 35 and 36: impertinence An irrelevant fact or
Page 37 and 38: everie A state of joy or delight;
Page 39 and 40: synthetical v. analytical Syntheti
Page 41 and 42: asher A thin slice of bacon or ham
Page 43 and 44: Tacit Pronounced “tass-it” Un
Page 45 and 46: malevolence The wishing or the dis
Page 47 and 48: superfluous Exceeds what is suffic
Page 49 and 50: knavery Dishonesty and crafty deal
Page 51 and 52: ingratiating et al. Ingratiating:
Page 53 and 54: convivial Characterized by feastin
Page 55 and 56: fancy As a collective noun, those
Page 57 and 58: coxcomb A fool or simpleton; a foo
Page 59 and 60: cockney Effeminate man; squeamish;
Page 61 and 62: secrete et al. Secrete: To place i
Page 63 and 64: nonce (as in “for the nonce”)
Page 65 and 66: shibboleth Shibboleth: A word used
Page 67 and 68: econdite Of things, removed or hid
Page 69: apology Formally, the defense of a
Page 73 and 74: pother Choking smoke or atmosphere
Page 75 and 76: catholic Universal; universally ap
Page 77 and 78: temerity Excessive boldness; rashn
Page 79 and 80: lackey A servile follower; a const
Page 81 and 82: perambulator One who walks or trav
Page 83 and 84: valetudinarian One of weak health,
Page 85 and 86: venerated To regard with feelings
Page 87 and 88: portentous and allocution Portento
Page 89 and 90: skein A quantity of thread of a ce
Page 91 and 92: quixotic Like Don Quixote, strivin
Page 93 and 94: sordidity Having to do with filthi
Page 95 and 96: volition An act of free choice or
Page 97 and 98: oafish Dull-witted lout; rude.
Page 99 and 100: contemptible To be despised or see
Page 101 and 102: aperient Something that opens the
Page 103 and 104: ow A violent disturbance or commot
Page 105 and 106: asceticism Rigorous self-disciplin
Page 107 and 108: urchin From the Latin ericius, mea
Page 109 and 110: egale and mulled Regale: to entert
Page 111 and 112: urban spectacle The act of describ
Page 113 and 114: fastidious That which creates disg
Page 115 and 116: pensive Full of thought; plunged i
Page 117 and 118: surplice A loose vestment of white
Page 119 and 120: propensity Intense natural inclina
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epletion The action of eating or d
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physiognomist One who studies temp
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polymath Person of varied learning
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heterodoxy Contrary to standard re
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fecundity Productiveness in genera
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abide To endure, suffer through, b
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incredulity and gaolers Incredulit
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ecalcitrance and denuded Recalcitr
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vespertinal Becoming especially ac
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lassitude The condition of being w
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mewling Adjective: thin cry, whimp
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ambrosia Greek mythology: the fabl
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dilatory Verb (in law): plea put i
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