Short Fiction of Margaret Atwood Glossary

by Margaret Atwood

Short Fiction of Margaret Atwood Glossary

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Despodency

Melancholy, discouragement

Haggard

Drained, emaciated

Sinister

Menacing, frightening

Indelible

Enduring, permanent, lasting

Ominous

Forbidding, baleful

Incarcerated

Confined, imprisoned

Vagrant

Drifter, nomad

Vindicate

Vengeful, rancorous

Misogyny

Aversion to women

Animosity

Detestation, antipathy

Protrusion

Eminence, projection

Surmises

Suspects, theorizes

Ponderous

Clumsy, graceless

Sonorous

Vibrant, resonant

Abashed

Ashamed, embarrassed

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