The Unfortunate Traveller Glossary

By Tasha Roy · Edited by Patrick Kennedy · Last reviewed June 21, 2021

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Written by Tasha Roy

Tantalizing

Having possessed the quality to stimulate some desire

Surmised

Idea based on guesses

Kendra

Central area

Countercuff

Polemical response

Pasquinade

A satirical writing published for public awareness

Pruritan

A skin condition

Braggart

Self-promoting, loud-mouthed man

Thrummed

Repeated monotonous tune

Superrerogation

A morally right action

Tractate

Treatise

Picaresque

Dealing with the life of a rogue

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