The Committed Glossary

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Committed Glossary

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Obstinacy

Rigidity, inflexibility

Admonish

Reproach, scold

Stipulated

Required, demanded

Avaricious

Covetous, mean

Asperity

Bitterness, sharpness

Pecuniary

Financial, economic

Obliterated

Killed, annihilated

Sobriety

Temperance, abstinence

Dilapidated

Unsound, decaying

Asunder

Into pieces

Implacable

Heartless, adamant

Rampant

Unchecked, epidemic

Clambered

Climbed, ascended

Volition

Longing, desire

Delineation

Portrait, description

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