The Screwtape Letters Glossary

The Screwtape Letters Glossary

revere

To regard with great esteem and admiration.

mitigate

To negotiate between disagreeing parties to avoid confrontation.

transitory

Lasting only briefly

invaluable

Something beyond cost; priceless.

subordinate

Placing a lower significance upon something or the thing deemed less consequential.

incompatible

The implication or fact that two or more individual components do not naturally fit well together.

inherent

Intrinsic, organic, a quality that is natural and unbreakable.

undulate

Moving in a wavelike manner.

pedantic

Obsessed with formal elements like rules and regulations.

querulous

Constantly complaining in an especially annoying fashion.

insipid

Lacking intellectual insight and marked by an acutely dull awareness.

malicious

Possessed of a desire to do harm; wicked and evil.

innocuous

Deemed inoffensive and of no great threat to do harm.

expedient

Strategically enacted to quickly avoid the potential of more intense loss or sacrifice down the road.

expurgate

Editing done for the sake of censoring content.

anodyne

Pain reliever.

panacea

A cure-all; usually conveyed in the sense of a hypothetical hope rather than an authentic reality.

genuflect

The cross-shaped ritual practiced by Catholics as a spritual rite in recognition of Christ suffering during crucifixion.

coterie

A small group of people sharing a secret mission.

mawkish

Excessively sentimental to the point of seeming insincere.

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