Days of Abandonment Glossary

Days of Abandonment Glossary

Poverella

a poor thing

Perfidious

not able to be trusted

Impetuously

impulsively

Impenetrable

inaccessible to influences, ideas

Unilaterally

done by one side

Obscene

offensive

Prissiness

properness (often used as an insult)

Recriminations

accusations

Solitude

isolation

Ineluctability

the quality of being impossible to avoid

Waterlogged

drenched

An apparition

a strange image that someone sees

Vengeance

revenge

La femme

a woman

Inscrutable

not easily understood

Lunacy

craziness or stupidity

Abstruse

more complicated than necessary

An abode

the place where you live

Gelato

a soft ice cream containing no or little air

Cadence

a way in which someone’s voice gets higher or lower as that person speaks

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