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The Child in Time Glossary

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Ponderous

Lumbering, graceless

Concocted

Prepared, assembled

Apparition

Phantom, spirit

Emulous

Ambitious, jealous

Despodency

Gloom, melancholy

Malediction

Curse, damnation

Combustion

Ignition, kindling

Vendible

Marketable, fit for sell

Aggravated

Made more serious

Vestals

Chaste women

Sauntered

Rambled, wandered

Corroborated

Authenticated, confirmed

Interminable

Ceaseless, constant

Mortification

Humiliation, suppression

Veering

Deviating, swinging

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