The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia

The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia Glossary

Alacrity

Cheerful promptness, eagerness

Beguiled

Attracted, interested

Concurrent

Happening at the same time

Conferred

Bestowed upon

Credulity

Willingness to believe something

Endeavoured

Tried, attempted

Exigencies

Things that are necessary

Imbecility

The state of being foolish or futile

Impute

To lay the responsibility or blame upon

Parsimony

Stinginess

Precipitance

Hastiness

Rapine

Pillage, plunder

Ratiocination

The process of reason

Repine

Complain, lament

Reproach

Criticize, rebuke

Satiety

The state of being satisfied

Tenuity

Thinness, slenderness

Torpid

Dull, inactive

Veracity

Truthfulness

Verdure

Vegetation

Vicissitudes

A change of circumstances or fortune

Volant

Able to fly

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