The Wonder Glossary

by Emma Donoghue

The Wonder Glossary

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Diffidence

Introversion, timidity

Emaciated

Skeletal, wasted

Avuncular

Friendly and kind

Postulate

Advance, hypothesize

Stagnation

Lack of activity

Congregation

Believer, faithful

Melancholic

Wistful, pensive

Prerogative

Liberty, advantage

Protruded

Projected, extended

Murmured

Whispered, mumbled

Bequeathed

Passed on, committed

Pittance

Next to nothing

Zenith

Top, peak

Commemorative

Celebratory, memorial

Obsequious

Ingratiating, servile

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