We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies Glossary

By Julia Wolf · Edited by Sierra Moore · Last reviewed August 20, 2022

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Written by Julia Wolf

Scabrous

Rough or textured

Fiendish

Devilish, extremely cruel

Lucrative

Profitable, rewarding

Quaint

Picturesque, fanciful

Eligible

Acceptable, suitable

Appal

To horrify

Elope

Run away, escape

Feasible

Possible

Urbane

Sophisticated, polite

Impede

To delay, prevent

Forlorn

Lonely

Austere

Strict, stern

Senile

Old, dated

Repudiate

To reject, decline

Chary

Careful, cautious

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