Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend Glossary

Impunities

Exemptions from punishment

Proffered

Offered; placed before or extended to

Pilfering

Stealing, often small amounts of something

Disconsolate

Hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable

Apostrophized

To digress by referring to an object or personified idea

Recumbent

Lying down, reclining, or leaning

Myrmidons

Someone who obeys orders without question

Alacrity

Readiness, promptness, or briskness

Reticence

Hesitation or unwillingness

Indolent

Lazy or unmotivated

Tautology

Needless repetition of an idea

Furtively

Secretively

Peripatetic

Wandering or wide-ranging

Descried

Discover or detect

Automaton

Mechanical or robotic figure

Aquiline

Resembling an eagle

Edified

Improving or benefiting, especially in a moral or spiritual sense

Phaeton

A light four-wheeled carriage

Infernal

Fiendish or diabolical

Flout

To treat with disdain or mock

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