The Lady With the Dog

The Lady With the Dog Glossary

conjunction

Two or more events or things occurring at the same point in time

Groveling

Begging in order to obtain forgiveness

curtailed

Reduced or deprived of

peculiar

Strange

monotonous

Boring and repetitive

salvation

Deliverance from harm

unceasing

Unstopping

cypresses

Evergreen coniferous trees with small rounded woody cones and flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves

pensive

Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought

flunkey

A person who performs relatively menial tasks for someone else, especially obsequiously

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