Memoirs of a Woman Doctor Glossary

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cosmopolitan

worldly, intelligent, sophisticated

culpable

worthy of blame; guilty

melancholy

depressing, grim

subservient

inferior; obedient to all authority

patriarchal

word used to describe societies in which power belongs to men

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